On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:26:41PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> On an OEM Pentium 100MHZ based unit, I installed the I386 port of NetBSD. I

Which release? Or was it a -current snapshot?

> then followed the 'standard procedures', for configuring X windows, well
> standard for other operating systems that use the product. It went through

Which means what? Which "standard procedures"? Were you going from memory
or do you have some sort of documentation handy?

> the initialization process, and then aborted with a claim that that there
> was a broken connection between server, and client. Does anyone have any
> advice on this one, or has seen it before. The computer has 16MB of main

How did you try to start "it"? Did you use xdm or xinit or startx or 
/usr/X11R6/bin/X or what? What did the server print out on it's stderr?

> memory installed.  But is not connected to the Internet, as it did not
> detect the modem, which is using the port which corresponds to COM3 in the
> world that it started off in.

What do you mean "it did not detect the modem"? NetBSD can detect a
serial port, and it can detect some internal modems that look like
serial ports. NetBSD does not, apon seeing a serial port, start sending
data out the port looking for a modem.


You can try posting your exact commands, the exact errors, and the
output of dmesg. That will help.
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