Today I got a call from CC for my Iopener which was orderd last month.
I have picked it up and want to see if I can get NetBSD on it.
I have not heard if others have had trouble because of the rumored
changes.  I have not heard success/failures after this note.  If others
have data let me know.  I'm going to try to obtain a USB eithernet
tomorrow.

johnh...

 On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Brett Lymn wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:39:30 +1030 (CST)
> From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
> To: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
> Cc: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>, David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>,
>      Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>, port-i386@netbsd.org,
>      current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener booted with NetBSD...
> 
> 
> I just saw a new snippet that Netpliance have modified their iopeners
> to stop people getting a cheap PC.  It remains to be seen what they
> have done to stop people but knowing what I know about board design &
> manufacturing I suspect that it amounts to leaving critical components
> off the board (that critical could just amount to the IDE header).
> 
> I reckon NetBSD is ahead of the game since they cannot do without the
> flash disk :-)
> 
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> Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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