I had no luck with any laptops. I had limited luck with desktops as 
well. If it is not supported you will obviously have limited luck with 
it. The only suggestion is to find another machine.

If anyone can tell me if 1.6.2 user land can work with 2.0 kernel I can 
make a new image with 2.0 kernel on it and hopefully this will improve 
hardware support.
I examined the possibility of making restore cd based on 2.0 userland 
but 2.0 is using shared libraries and it is hard to figure out 
dependencies without a tool. I am too involved at work at the moment to 
dedicate much time to this.

Thanks,
Alex

Michael Bramley wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Iım trying to restore the NetBSD 2.0-1 CD onto my Qube 2 using a Sony Vaio
> PCG-F540 laptop and a 3COM Megahertz 10/100 network card (Model:
> 3CCFE575CT), with no success at all, the card works OK under Win 2K but it
> does not look like that NetBSD will drive it (link light on NIC and hub do
> not light up), I bought the card specially for this purpose and from what I
> could tell I thought it was supported by NetBSD as listed on the i386 distro
> hardware guide:
> 
> http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ex+4+NetBSD-current
> 
> Itıs also mentioned here that pretty much any 3COM card will work:
> 
> http://www.christopherschultz.net/projects/qube/qube.html
> 
> Rather than make the same mistake twice, please could somebody advise me by
> telling what laptop NICıs PCMCIA or Cardbus work with theCobalt NetBSD
> restore CDıs?
> 
> The first time I did my Qube last year I used a friends IBM ThinkPad with
> built Ethernet and that worked fine, heıs since sold the ThinkPad though
> 
> Thanks Regards Mick Bramley
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