Subject: Re: Looking for advice on hpc models?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: TAKEMURA Shin <takemura@netbsd.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/26/2000 15:23:43
Oh no!

I have to say that NetBSD/hpcmips have not supported
PC Card controller on Cassiopeia E series. You will have
some difficulties to use network I/F on Cassiopeia.
You must set up the network I/F on Windows CE before
you boot NetBSD every time. Then NetBSD use the card
as a fixed ISA NIC. Once NetBSD boot, the windows CE
setting will go away. So you must set it up every time
you boot...

Takemura

----- Original Message -----
From: "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To: "Jonathan Stone" <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for advice on hpc models?


> In message <200008092256.PAA03267@champagne.dsg.stanford.edu> Jonathan
Stone writes:
> : thinking about geting an hpcmips device for doing some mips
> : development while on the road, with NFS to an i386 laptop.
> : I'd prefer a palm-size formfactor rather than subnotebook.
>
> Actually, I just re-read this and the Palm size devices would work
> here if you were willing to NFS boot.  You'd need a CF ethernet card
> that is supported by NetBSD (there are three cards supported, and 4 on
> the market (the 3com 3C1 isn't supported)).  You could then have a
> serial console (connected to the i386 laptop) for console interaction
> and NFS mount over the ethernet.
>
> Looking at the currently available US models (I cribbed these values
> from my mips web page at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/pdamips.html
> ).
>
> The Cassiopeia E-115 (or is that the E-117) which is a pocketPC.  This
> has either a 131MHz Vr4121 processor, dependnig on where you look for
> information.  It has 32MB of RAM and will work with NetBSD/hpcmips.
> The screen may not work properly, but you might not care about that.
>
> Warner