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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:
    Michael> also some steps that I didn't get right. The 1.2 ifconfig
    Michael> may lock your 1.3 kernel.  These are the steps that I

  No, that isn't precisely it.  
  
  My kernel, dmesg out put below, locks when I ifconfig de0 and de1.
  Neither my kernel, nor the GENERIC one from
	ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA/i386/tarfiles 
  will boot consistently: it appears that if I -sa it, and respond
immediately to the "root device (default wd0a):" prompt, then it is
okay. If I wait, then it crashes. My suspicion is that the wait is for
a packet (irq) from de0/de1. 
  Suggestions? This machine is a network testing node. Packets flow
"through" it so that we can purposely munge them to test the end
nodes. Thus its three network cards. It is also therefore a machine
that I can move to 1.3 without upsetting anyone.

  [irrelevancy: it seems one can set their watch to IETF's Cynthia
Clark. New draft announcements begin to arrive at 9:35am EST..]

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NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA (GENERIC) #2: Thu Nov 20 15:53:59 EET 1997
    mcr@ovi.ssh.fi:/m/taulu/1/netbsd13/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: family 5 model 2 step b
cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) (586-class)
real mem  = 33161216
avail mem = 28209152
using 430 buffers containing 1761280 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Intel 82437FX System Controller (TSC) (rev. 0x02)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: Intel 82371FB PCI-to-ISA Bridge (PIIX) (rev. 0x02)
Intel 82371FB IDE controller (PIIX) (IDE mass storage, interface 0x80, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured
S3 86C968-0 ("Vision968") (VGA display) at pci0 dev 18 function 0 not configured
ppb0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0: Digital Equipment DECchip 21050 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x02)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
de0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0
de0: interrupting at irq 11
de0: SMC 8434BT-CH1 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3
de0: address 00:00:c0:22:00:c0
de1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0
de1: interrupting at irq 12
de1: SMC 8434BT-CH2 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3
de1: address 00:00:c0:97:02:c0
isa0 at pcib0
ne0 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f irq 9
ne0: NE2000 Ethernet
ne0: Ethernet address 48:54:33:00:eb:eb
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt2 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf: polled
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
atapibus0 at wdc0
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <WDC AC31000F>
wd0: 1033MB, 2100 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
pc0: console
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask 4040 netmask 5a40 ttymask 5a42
boot device: wd0
root device (default wd0a): 
dump device (default wd0b): 
file system (default generic): 
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs

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