BM ethernet driver for Mac PowerPC blue and white G3.
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:32:19 UTC
Hello I'm trying out FreeBSD 13.2 on my blue and white G3 Macintosh. I read that FreeBSD 13.0 dropped BM0 / BMAC / BM ethernet driver support, which is the ethernet the blue and white uses. How might I reinstall this driver? I tried adding "if_bm_load="YES"" to /boot/loader.conf and restarted but I saw on the openfirmware boot screen: "can't find 'if_bm'" when I rebooted. dmesg has no mention of bm, ethernet, etc. I'd try building a custom kernel but as it happens the hdd I'm using at the moment is a spare 2.3GB drive which isn't large enough to install the src files into during the install process. (big enough for a basic install tho, so freebsd is running on the mac.) I could use a larger hdd but that would involve backing up all the data I have on that drive. I wanted to see if there's an alternative before taking that course. Thanks! Chris.