Hi Dave,

> 	OK... I've got the PCMCIA stuff turning itself into a kernel.
> Hopefully I can get this all onto a bootdisk somehow...  Anyways, now
> I need to know if I can get the IDE CDROM drives working --- it
> strikes me that most laptop's CD's will be the IDE variety.

I don't know how you CD-ROM is connected and what type of CD-ROM it is,
but maybe the ATAPI patches from a french guy named Manuel Bouyer
<bouyer@ensta.fr>. Look at the http://www.netbsd.org and then follow
the link to the projects page.

  Guenther