Thanks, this will help ;) Gilles Bouazis - AmigO PC France - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SuperMacs List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [SM] S900 & BeOS > At 21:20 +0100 12/08/2003, HippYBouH wrote: > > >So none here use BeOS here ?? > > If you've gotten no response then probably not, or if there is > someone, they probably don't have an E100 card. I don't remember > all of your original question, but one thing to check is whether BeOS > supports the Jackhammer UW SCSI card. > > The SCSI portion of the E100 is identical to a PCI UW Jackhammer > card, so if the latter is supported then the E100 will work as a SCSI > card with BeOS. > > You probably won't be able to get the ethernet portion to work with > BeOS regardless because it requires a hack to Open Firmware to > basically make the machine think it has another PCI slot (I think > that's what it does). And it requires an ethernet driver > specifically written for it. > > However, you could examine the card. The E100 uses a fairly common > ethernet chip. If that chip is supported under BeOS, then there is > a chance that you could get it to work but it would almost certainly > require some software hacking down at the Open Firmware level. > > I hope that helps. I know it's kind of vague. > > Jeff Walther > > -- > SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
