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Greetings from the Grey Wolf's Corporate Hell.

I'm trying to get NetBSD up and running but am having severe
difficulties, due likely to 1.2.1 unsupported hardware (guessing
from the DMESG output); if anyone knows if this is to be fixed 
in 1.3, please advise, thanks.

Summary:
	3c905 card is not properly recognized
	Display is not properly recognized (though it does come up)
	Mouse is not recognized (and subsequently X won't run)
	Several other nonexistent cards _are_ recognized.

Hardware:
	DELL OptiPlex GXi:
		200MHz MMX Pentium	CPU
		S3 Trio64+ 			Display
		3Com 3c905			Ether

System:
	GENERIC kernel from 1.2.1 sources, 1.2.1 userland.

Everything else seems to "work".  The original kernel panic()d with
"Clone devices not supported on isa0" (or some such), presumably 
because I had foolishly configured a kernel with 
	"ep* at isa0 port ? irq ?"
(requires ep0).  First ethernet comes up as
ep1 at isa0
(why, I'm not sure, unless the kernel is mapping ep1 on the eisa bus
and just telling me it's isa0...).  I'm especially boggled by the "no
connectors!" message.

I also cannot get XFree863.3 to work right, but I'm sure that's because
of the display incompatibility... [actually it just turned out that
X refuses to run in single-user mode :-(]

Is there a 1.3-- snapshot somewhere, or is 1.3 happening soon?

Could someone -also- please tell me (again) how to label the drive so
that [W95]:C: will mount properly?  What offsets do I need, etc...?  
[I have wd0h available for use for an MS-DOS filesystem, and I currently
have it starting at one track ahead of cyl 0 and extending to the start
of the NETBSD partition.]

The output from dmesg is shown below, annotated with exactly what I do
and don't "get".

NetBSD 1.2.1 (ALDERAAN) #2: Mon Jul 28 07:55:06 PDT 1997

greywolf@alderaan.dev.schwab.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ALDERAAN
CPU: Pentium (GenuineIntel 586-class CPU)
real mem  = 66711552
avail mem = 59682816						<??
Where'd 8MB go?
using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes of memory	<<< Found 3 of
it...

??? where's the other 5?
mainbus0 (root)
isa0 at mainbus0
<?? ... is this _really_ an ISA?
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37f irq 7
# Why'd it find this? :
sea0: board type unknown at address 0xf8351000
mcd0: timeout in getresult	
mcd0: timeout in getresult
mcd0: timeout in getresult		<<< No mitsumi cd rom, OK.
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14	<<< Found wdc0, cool...
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 2014MB, 4092 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
<QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A>
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
# ?? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is this because it's ISA?
ie0: unknown AT&T board type code 15
^^^<?? Why'd it find this?
ie1: unknown AT&T board type code 15
^^^			<?? ...or this?
sb0 at isa0 port 0x220-0x237 irq 7 drq 1: dsp v3.02	<<< Sound board.

<[[ Cool.
wss0 at isa0 port 0x530-0x537 irq 10 drq 0: broken (vers 63)
^^^?? What's this?				  ^^^^^^
wss: could not attach to audio pseudo-device driver (22)
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16	
^^^^?? What's this?
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color	<<? I think I get this...
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1	<<< Finds pci bus...?
vendor 0x8086 product 0x1250 (class bridge, subclass host, revision
0x03) at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<?? What's this?
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7000 (class bridge, subclass ISA, revision 0x01)
at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not configured
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<?? What's this?
vendor 0x5333 product 0x8811 (class display, subclass VGA, revision
0x44) at pci0 dev 16 function 0 not configured
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<?? What's this?
ep1 at pci0 dev 17 function 0: 3Com 3C905 Ethernet	<<< Found it,
BUT:
ep1: no connectors! address 00:c0:4f:bd:3b:0b	<?? What's this mean?
ep1: interrupting at irq 11
biomask 44c0 netmask 4cc0 ttymask 4cd2
changing root device to wd0a
/dev/wd0a: file system not clean; please fsck(8)	
^^^^^^^^..<?? I get this even after I've cleaned the filesystem and
	    <?? mounted immediately after.

Where's my mouse; do I need to configure it to find the mouse on the
eisa
port...?

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