Subject: getting a CATS to use el cheapo ne0 & sb0
To: None <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/30/1998 02:48:07
Man, Fry's is the worst kind of drug... I went there today to exchange an
ATAPI ZIP drive that exhibited the infamous "click of death" (this drive was
for my CATS system; the replacement drive worked fine). And lo, what should
I discover on the shelf but:

    - NE-2000 compatible PCI ethernet for $8 (piles of them)
    - SoundBlaster-16 compatible ISA sound for $6 (limit one per customer)

I bought 3 of each. (Friends helped me get around the customer limit.)
I have a slight dread that I have just rewarded slave labor in China.

Anyway, I have gotten NetBSD/i386 to recognize the ethernet board as ne0.
It keeps declaring the sound card to be "not configured" but I figure that
may change once I get around to running -current on this machine. The static
isa config line gets an error setting some mask bit and fails to probe, so I
am using "sbo at isapnp0".

NetBSD/arm32 on my CATS system doesn't want to probe either of these boards;
the firmware does not recognize the card as an ne0, and 'config' on arm32
thinks that isapnp* and sb* are unknown devices, and won't let me add them
to the kernel. I thought these were MI device drivers, so any ideas about
how I might get them added to my arm32 kernel would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com