>The posting that you refer to only mentions that it is supported in
>NetBSD-current (ie not yet in an official release, currently under
>development), not in 1.5.x. Unless the changes necessary were "pulled
>up" to the 1.5 branch, it will not be supported in any of those
>releases.
>
>Try installing the most recent NetBSD-current snapshot at
>ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20020104-1.5ZA
>(keeping in mind that it may have minor problems here and there, since
>it is just a build of what happened to be in CVS that day, not
>something that has gone through a full test cycle).





Thanks for the response Laine.  However, I am using the Netbsd-current 
kernel.  Reason I said 1.5.2A is that is what it reports as being.
  I downloaded it yesterday and dropped it onto the laptop.  Quite
possibly the snapshot will, yet the sys.tar.gz source will not?

Thanks again.