I thought just for the hell of it I would try Drake 9.1 on the 6500. Install went just about flawless. Once I got up and running, I found out supermount was not supported by the kernel (Good enough for me. Didn't want it anyways). Then I went to setup the ethernet. ifconfig didn't show it. Great.

# modprobe tulip
modprobe: no such file or directory
#modprobe bmac
modprobe: no such file or directory

Ok. Time to recompile the kernel. After several tries to get the cdrom (scd0) mounted, it seemed like there was no hope, and still seems that way. How can I tell this thing to use my ethernet adapter?

It's one added into the Comm II port. I had the same trouble with Yellow Dog, but MacOS does not have any problem using it, so I know it's not bad.