Well, I'm building it just because I can  =]  I've got 12 machines in the
house (this is the only x86 machine, everything else I run is Apple
Hardware), prolly become a mailserver router when it's all said and done,
but it's more of an academic exercise at this point.


                            --Shawn
----- Original Message -----
From: elliot d schlegelmilch <elliot@schlegelmilch.org>
To: Shawn Dunn <sfalkenx@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: Old POS 486


> not what you want to hear, but i'm sure almost all those devices work
> under FreeBSD: of course, i'm not really sure what you'd do with such a
> machine after it's all working [www/mail/dns server?].  i'd wager and
> say you should be able to get sound, cdrom, and network working under
> netbsd, i'
>
> # matcd: Matsushita/Panasonic CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI)
interface
> device          matcd0  at isa? port 0x230
>
> # pcm: PCM audio through various sound cards.
> # For non-pnp sound cards with no bridge drivers only:
> device          pcm0 at isa? irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0
>
> as for the nic, either you'll have the irq and memory address, or you'll
> have to build a kernel with many to guess many of the combinations
> (0x260, 0x280, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, irq 9 10 11 etc) [this part may work
> for netbsd]
> device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 5 iomem 0xd8000
>
> zip disk:
>  Supported devices:
> # vpo   Iomega Zip Drive
> #       Requires SCSI disk support ('scbus' and 'da'), best
> #       performance is achieved with ports in EPP 1.9 mode.
> device          ppc0    at isa? irq 7
> device          vpo
>
> according to http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/1999/06/17/0001.html
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 04:10:33PM +0100, Stu Carter wrote:
> >
> > I can't find information on support for parallel-port scsi.
> > I have a parallel-port zip drive, but don't know where to
> > start. I've had it working under Linux, so I can do it once
> > I know where to look! I'm using the generic kernel: should
> > I customise it?
>
> Unfortunably there's no support for this in NetBSD.
>
>
> best regards,
> elliot
>
>