I got a look at a 2200 on Friday and it looks like a really nice piece of
hardware. I assume it's based around the Cyrix MediaGX chipset since the only
large VLSI chip, has Cyrix written on it, the other is under a heatsink.

The only I/O on the platfrom is USB(2), Ethernet 10/100 and audio. I can't
remember which ethernet chip it's based on, but I'll have a look again...
Internal I/O is limited to two slots. one with a compact flash adaptor, so I
assume the slots are cardbus.

Does -current have Media/GX support that works? Anyone knows about XFree86?

The fact that the unit uses convection cooling and is in a steel case appeals
to me since it makes a great little quiet diskless workstation.

--et

On 18-Jan-00 Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Aslak Raanes <Aslak.Raanes@idi.ntnu.no> writes:
>> We have some IBM Network Station 2200 and they seem to run som kind of
>> modified (?) NetBSD 1.2. I was wondering if someone has managed to use a
>> more «standard» and newer version of NetBSD on NS 2200? Do I need to
>> make a special kernel?
>> 
>> <URL:http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/networkstation/>
>> <URL:http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/prodspecs.d2w/re
>> port?partnum=8363EUS&merchant_rn=1&priceType=IBM&cntry=840&lang=en_US>
> 
> NC OS is a hacked form of 1.3.2
> 
> You probably could get a "real" NetBSD kernel to boot on the thing,
> although it certainly won't be pain free to do so.
> 
> Perry
>