Hi,

** > I've been trying to boot NetBSD/arm26 over the weekend on one of the
** > A5k's but for the life of me I cant work out if the Ethernet card I
** > have is an Ether1.
**
** I suspect no-one else cloned the Ether1, so if it's not got an Acorn
logo
** and "AKA25" on the back, it's something else.

It has an Acorn Logo on it, as it was shipped officially with the L4
Fileserver software on this box.  It doesnt have an AKA25 on it to my
knowledge.

** > AFAIK, it's a Atomwide 'A-1006' 16-bit podule
** > with 10base2.  It has an Access+ ROM on board but I cant work out what
** > sort of card it is as Atomwide have nicely glued a sticker over the
** > top of the controller IC.  It originally came with an L4 fileserver.
** > Any ideas as I know absolutely squat about Acorn Ethernet cards?
**
** Erm, does it have a driver module on the ROM?  This will probably be
** called something beginning with "Ether".  If so, what is it?  This
** usually identifies the hardware fairly well.

Ouch!  Find wall, bang head!  I should have looked there (I'm still not
used to the Arch again as I haven't touched one for about 4 years).

** If NetBSD manages to start up far enough to find the card, the "not
** configured" line it prints might be useful -- you can look up the
** manufacturer and product IDs (which appear in that order in angle
** brackets after the description) in sys/arch/arm32/podulebus/podules and
** then see which of the drivers there mention it in their probe routines.

It did't boot at all, but I think it's a memory problem at this end.
It has an 8Mb upgrade which doesn't seem to work properly under RiscOS,
due to crappy soldering (It was a board-hackery installation that works
when you wobble the card).  I'm scouring for information on the upgrade
so I can attack it with a soldering iron again and hopefully make it work.
I havent tried it on the 4Meg system yet, but I might get board swapping
tonight.

** If it turns out to be something supported by NetBSD/arm32, I suppose
that
** pushes getting podulebus drivers transferable up my priority list.

That would be cool :)

Chris.