okay... That's a success.... i found some crimpers and some ends...
Got it to a prompt... gotta love that...
next step is to get angband running.  :)
(http://thangorodrim.angband.org)
:)

now... could you send me a copy of that kernel?
I'm going to make a *very* in depth howto/faq today....
I'll probably put the faq on cvs and allow it to be a multiple person
thing.  :)  I want it to be very very good.  :)

The last thing we need is to loose support due to frustration.

I plan on making the faq answer all the basic dreamcast/netbsd quirks, as
well as explaination as to why it's diskless and various "can we do this?"
q&A's ... like "boot off VMS?"  :)

n8


On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Nathan Mahon wrote:

> yeah... it's a hub alright.... i'll be busting out the crimpers
> tonight....  :)
> 
> n8
> 
> 
> On 6 Jun 2001, Fredrik Hubinette wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This looks very much like the problem I had.
> > You have your BBA hooked up to a hub, right?
> > 
> > In my case, the problem is that the dreamcast BBA handles
> > collision detection *extremely* poorely. This combined with
> > the incredibly stupid backoff routines in NFS makes it
> > impossible to use a rsize over 1024 bytes in some cases.
> > 
> > There are two solutions to the problem: Use a kernel
> > compiled with RSIZE set to 1024. If you can't find one
> > or make one I can give you the one Marcus Comstedt compiled
> > for me. 
> > 
> > The other solution is to make sure that collisions never happens:
> > Either by hooking up your BBA to a full-duplex-capable switch, or
> > hook up your BBA directly to a computer/network card/router with
> > a crossed ethernet cable.  This solution also has the advantage that
> > you can get around 500Kb/s through your BBA instead of 50Kb/s
> > with RSIZE=1024..
> > 
> >         /Fredrik Hubinette (buying a switch real soon now)
> > 
> > 
> > Nathan Mahon <nate@aftershock.blackhat.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Okay.... its on ftp.netbsd.org and i'm downloading it now.
> > > I had previously set up the files i mentioned, and when i boot it with
> > > everything, it seems to hang/stop its boot after the following lines:
> > > 
> > > <kernelstuff>
> > > nfs_boot: Trying DHCP/BOOTP...
> > > nfs_boot: Timeout...
> > > nfs_boot: DHCP server: 10.5.5.203
> > > nfs_boot: my_addr: 10.5.5.129
> > > nfs_boot: my_mask: 255.255.255.0
> > > root on 10.5.5.203:/usr/home/vae/dc-fs
> > > root file system type: nfs
> > > 
> > > 
> > > <hang>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > any clues?
> > > will switching to the 20010227 set work?
> > > 
> > > n8
> > > 
> > > PS: using IPSlave and a NetBSD server...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, scav wrote:
> > > 
> > > > It seems my first response went directly to Jared by mistake:
> > > > 
> > > > Strangely enough, a snapshot can be found here at
> > > > /pub/NetBSD/arch/sh3/snapshot/20010227-dreamcast-elf-test on the ftp
> > > > (ftp.se.netbsd.org at least, but should be the same.)
> > > > 
> > > > --scav
> > > > 
> > > > > I was wondering if there was an alternate location to get up-to-date
> > > > > snapshots from, as the location referred on netbsd.org/Ports/dreamcast
> > > > > (ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/dreamcast/snapshot/) contains no
> > > > files.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for your help.
> > > > >
> > > > > -J
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > 
>