Subject: Re: Anyone ever install NetBSD on a Dell Laptop? (help...)
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/19/1998 11:01:38
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:21:43 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> > >"Michael C. Ibarra" writes:
> > >> I am attempting to install NetBSD 1.3.2 on my Dell Latitiude XPi Pentium
> > >> 133Mhz laptop. I am using a scsi cdrom connected to my replicator port
> > >> (which I believe is an Adaptec controller and which also has a 3Com
> > >> ethernet port),
> > >
> > >Do these appear as ISA devices? PCI devices? PCMCIA devices? What type
> > >of controller is it.
>
> > my scsi controller and my scsi cdrom do not appear at all.
>
> Yes, but is it SUPPOSED to be an ISA scsi/ethernet, or PCI, or what,
> and what kind of controller is it?
>
> To figure out what is going wrong, we first have to know exactly how
> the device is supposed to appear first.
>
> We also need to know if the bus in the expansion dock is on the other
> side of a bridge, since you might not have your kernel configured to
> understand that bridge.
I believe the "replicator port" (like a docking station) has an ahc-driver
compatible SCSI, and a 3c905B-TX Ethernet ... i.e. a DMA-only model. Perhaps
it's a 3c905-TX (i.e. one what would work w/ the "ep" driver), but I'm not
100% certain on that point... They are PCI devices, AFAIK.
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