Hello all,

My problem (in short) :
After booting the sysinst kernel I cannot see the microdrive or the ethernet
card and the kernel stops whenever I insert/remove either card.

My problem (in length):
After having recently decided that I would like my vadem clio to run a real
operating system, I am now in the process of getting netbsd 1.5 installed on
my system which is currently:

Vadem Clio C-1050
1 Gig IBM Microdrive in CF slot under battery
Socket LP-E Low Power Ethernet card, a CF card in a PC Card adapter to fit
in the PC Card slot

I have obtained the netbsd kernel and psdboot.exe file as well as hopefully
all the .tgz files that make up all of the installion sets.

I am able to successfully boot the sysinst kernel but have problems from
there. I do not know how to configure the network card or mount the
microdrive. In fact I believe that the installation kernel has not found
either card.

Here the what "cat /kern/msgbuf" prints out:

MIPS VR 4121 (NEC VR4121 rev1.2 168.521MHz)
total memory = 32768 KB
avail memory = 23580 KB
using 435 buffers containg 1740 KB of memory
/u/src/release/src/sys/arch/hpcmips/vr/vr.c(294): vr_bus_reset() not
implemented.
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: NEC VR4100 CPU (0xc60) Rev. 6.0 with software emulated
floating point Rev. 0.0
cpu0: L1 cache: 16KB/16KB instruction, 8KB/16B data, direct mapped
cpu0: No L2 cache
cpu0: install VR specific idle routine
vrip0 at mainbus0
vrcmu0 at vrip0 addr 0xb000060-0xb00007f
vrgiu0 at vrip0 addr 0xb000100-0xb00011f intr 8
vrbcu0 at vrip0 addr 0xb000000-0xb00001f
vrbcu: cpu 168.521MHz, bus 28.086MHz, ram 56.173MHz
com0 at vrip0 addr 0xc000000-0xc000007 intr 9: ns16550a, working fifo
vrrtc0 at vrip0 addr 0xb0000c0-0xb0000df intr 2
vrkiu0 at vrip0 addr 0xb000180-0xb00019f intr 7
wskbd0 at vrkiu0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard
vrpmu0 at vrip0 addr 0xb0000a0-0xb0000bf intr 1
vrdsu0 at vrip0 addr 0xb0000e0-0xb0000e7
vrpiu0 at vrip0 addr 0xb000120-0xb0002bf intr 5
wsmouse0 at vrpiu0 mux 0
vrisab3 at vrgiu0: ISA port 0x15000000-0x18000000 mem 0x10000000-0x20000000
isa3 at vrisab3
pcic0 at isa3 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0x70000-0x73fff irq 851971
pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has no sockets
pcic0: controller 1 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has socket A only
pcmcia at pcic0 controller 1 socket 0 not configured
bivideo0 at mainbus0: pseudo video controller, console
hpcfb0 at bivideo0: hpcrasops 640x480 pixels, 65536 colors, 80x48 chars:
tvram redraw
wsdisplay0 at hpcfb0: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
btnmgr0 at mainbus0
wskbd1 at brnmgr0 mux 1
hpcapm0 at mainbus0: pseudo power management module
apmdev0 at hpcapm0: Power Management spec V1.2
/u/src/release/src/sys/arch/hpcmips/vr/vr.c(294): vr_bus_reset() not
implemented.
pcic0: using irq 851971 for socket events
 fixed, 8192 blocksboot device: <unknown>
root on md0a dumps on md0b
WARNING: preposterous clock chip time
 -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs


Also as I mentioned above the sysinst kernel breaks if I insert/remove
either of the cards. When this happens I can still type on the keyboard but
get no response after hitting the enter key.

I had hopes of being able to fdisk the microdrive and then ftp over the
installation sets but it doesn't look like its quite that easy.

If anyone has any sugesstions on what I should do next please let me know.

Thanks in advance,
Perry Kollmorgen.