Its alright.  No it is a pre october powerbook.  I bought it last spring 
some time.  I used the kernel that comes with 3.0 and I just built one 
from the netbsd-3 cvs repository.  Not sure if I am much help sadly.

Richard M Kreuter wrote:
> tmdraney@cox.net writes:
> 
>>I am again attempting to install NetBSD onto my powerbook.  With 3.0 it 
>>is been much more successful so far.  I have a fairly new 15" powerbook 
>>1.67 ghz.
> 
> 
> (Slightly offtopic request)
> 
> Is this a post-October 1.67 GHZ Powerbook (aka a "PowerBook5,8")?  If
> so, may I ask what kernel version you're using?  
> 
> I can't boot NetBSD on mine: the machine powers itself off during the
> kernel's device detection.
> 
> --
> Thanks,
> RmK
>