On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:46:25AM -0500, Fred Heitkamp wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Tim Walls wrote:
> 
> > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] Tim Walls wrote:
> > 
> > They (apparently) stock the "X-Surf" ethernet card, which is
> > seemingly supported by NetBSD-current.  Does anyone know
> > if this support is reliable, and if either the 1.4P or
> > 1.4.2alpha snapshots include the support?  It would make my
> > life a whole lot easier if I could net-install NetBSD!

1.4.2 will support the X-surf, and we support the AriadneII since
the first day it was sold. I err, think, that the 2nd 1.4.2_ALPHA
snapshot did so already, but am not sure. I can, however, upload
a third one tomorrow.

I'm not sure the 1.4P snapshot I did had Xsurf already. (You can test this
cheaply, by fetching only the kernel, un-gzipping it and pointing loadbsd 2.13
or 2.14 at it. X-surf and Ariadne II both show up as "ne" interfaces.)

However, I plan to do a 1.4Q[DEL]R[DEL]S soon, which will definitely have it.

> > (Alternatively, does anyone know how hard it is to set up
> >  a cross-compile environment to build the Amiga (kernel)
> >  on an i386-current system?)

Does partially work, at least for 68030 targets (I guess NOT for 68040 or
68060); Aymeric Vincent has done this.

Full crosscompiling does not work, as the generic GNU binutils do not 
support our a.out shared libraries (for m68k), and we are currently using
an older, hacked, toolchain.

	-is