[Sunhelp] Re: PCI ethernet card

[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

> 	I was under the impression that devices such as ethernet cards, scsi
> cards..etc..wouldn't work in Sparc machines if they didn't have specific
> hardware on them to talk to the OpenBoot Prom? Was I misinformed?

Yes.  OBP support is only required if the h/w needs to be used at boot
time.  For SCSI and video cards this is critical, for network cards far
less so as every PCI Sun shipped already has onboard ethernet to boot off
of. 

-James