>  --- Erik Nielsen <Erik@kythra.net> wrote: 
> > Computer: SparcIPC w/48MB RAM
> > OS: NetBSD 2.0 (Not even going to go into the absolute hell I had to
> > go through to install 2.0.)

I'm having enough problems just with 1.6.2.  (1.5.x was so easy).

> > it began running. When I try to ssh in to the machine, it will not let
> > me connect, claiming that the password is incorrect. I tried resetting

Probably has nothing to do with your problem, but maybe ... .  In my case
I regularly switch between a 101-key English keyboard and a 106-key Japanese
keyboard.  When it comes to the sparc port, there are two more possibilities
(English and Japanese Sun keyboards) if I install from the hardware console
versus serial console.  Anyway, once I installed with a 101-key keyboard,
but was using a 106-key keyboard with the terminal emulation software for
telnetting in.  While I was intending on sending the character "&" (shift+7),
I was actually sending "'" (same keystroke on the other keyboard).  Had me
stumped for days.  To check if this could be your problem, just make a
password temporarily using all (only) lower case letters, "a" to "z".

> > I've been using NetBSD on one archetecture or annother for almost 9
> > years now and have always found it to "just work", at least as long
> > as I read the documentation. What happened?

Know your feeling (only about 6 years here).  I think it's going to be
a bit bumpy for the next year, but I'm sure it will be worth it.  Just
having a native threads library will be good.  Hopefully there's been
some improvement in the locale (multibyte utf-8 in cui userland) support.

-- 
henry nelson
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