Hi Ben!,

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Ben Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> 
> > Oh on the A4 : it crashes during kernel installation ... it doesnt have an
> > backplane !!

Euhm.. i meant to say during kernel initialisation of cource .....

> Can you post the precise messages?  It should claim a podulebus with no
> podules is installed, I believe.

False alarm ... i am sorry... i was using 1.4X ... the new 1.5G (FOURMEG)
works including the keyboard ! It only doesn't allow me to choose a root
device other than `halt' for it doesnt have any network interfaces :(

One thing though : with a still burning floppy drive LED ! Maybe an extra
wait in BBBB?

oh it reports a arckbd layout 2 and a delay factor 5 ... havent tried out
all the odd keys to see if the layout works perfectly though...

hope you like the result ... I do !!! now a way to get a harddisc image on
the 60Mb harddisc.... an in kernel PPP to a NetBSD/arm32 machine ?

> > a problem how to get stuff on the harddisc but oh well ... we'll see ... a
> > parallel / serial PPP ?
> 
> I believe you should be able to use PPP under both RISC OS and NetBSD, but
> I haven't actually tested it.  I'm in the happy position of having
> Ethernet in almost all my machines at present, but I suspect that's not an
> option on an A4.

*sigh* yeah ... i do have a `Longshine LCS-8834P(M) Ethernet pocket lan
adapter' a 10base-T parallel port interface.... should be fun when it
works !!!

Cheers and sorry again for the fuzz,
Reinoud