Subject: Re: The NetBSD-0.9a kernel
To: Jesper Nilsson <jesper@lundin.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@cs.orst.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/23/1994 19:45:30
On Fri, 22 Apr 94 15:07 CET 
 jesper@lundin.se (Jesper Nilsson) wrote:

 > Some problems with the kernel of NetBSD-0.9a compiled on Apr 16, 23:13
 > by cgd@sun-lamp:
 > 
 >   My ethernet controller 3C503 8-bit does not get detected
 >   by the new kernel. OK with NetBSD-0.9 dist. kernel (devicename ed1:)

This isn't really a problem...as I have this problem every time I boot a 
'generic' kernel...My second ethernet card (a 3c503) gets reported as an 
unknown becuase the jumper settings are different than those spec'd in 
the generic kernel.  Just reconfig and remake...

 > 
 >   A device by name 'ie0' is not present but gives the following bogus
 >   display:
 > 
 > 	ie0: unknown AT&T board type code 0
 > 	ie0: can't map 3C507 RAM in high memory
 > 
 > (What is ie0: and all the rest of new ethernet devices? Which one
 > is the new 3C509?)
 > 
 >   The XFree86-2.0 X_S3 Server is screwed up: Windows does not get filed
 >   and menues that drop down is just displayed as the frame. Moving the
 >   mouse in the pull-down menu sometimes makes the menu items apper and
 >   sometimes the see-thru background just get inverted.
 > 
 > (I'm in the slow process of getting XFree86-2.1 downloaded.)
 > 
 > All of this happens on a i486-DX2 66MHz with 16Mb memory. It is an Intel
 > PCI machine with a PCI SPEA/Video7 S3-928 VGA card.
 > 
 > When the video is changed to a WD90C30 with 1Mb the console gets 
 > srewed up during the boot. As far as I can see it happens when the above
 > ie0: starts to display its bougus messages. The lines on the console starts
 > in the middle of the screen and lines does not get scrolled the rigth way.
 > The console cursor stays in the rigth place thow. But the text is someware
 > else one the screen.
 > 
 > The distributed NetBSD-0.9 is OK on the machine. I've even tryed running
 > it on a Intel PCI Pentium-66MHz without any hickups. The XFree86-2.0 X_S3
 > Server is blazing fast on this baby.
 > 
 > A question about the following note in CHANGES for NetBSD-current:
 > 
 > >	changes to support running of Windows executable via Wine. Changes
 > >		to the kernel activated with "USER_LDT" option. New syscalls
 > >		are in new architecure specific library - libarch/libi386.
 > >		(brezak)
 > 
 > What is "Wine"? Do you mean a MS Windows 3.1 emulator or what?
 > 
 > TIA
 > 
 > -- 
 > Jesper Nilsson    Lundin Datasystem AB    ETHERNET is a service to Arnold
 > jesper@lundin.se  Phone: +46 46 32 00 90  Schwarzenegger: It connects
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