Hello,


	I just got a 486DX2-66 box to run NetBSD.


mother board:
	486 - Green PC Motherboard
	three 32 VL-Bus slots
	4 other ISA slots
	16M of memory
	256k cache
	AMI Bios

video card:
	Trident 9600 video card in one of the VL-Bus slots.

I/O Card:
	AT Multi I/O AI2SG-6/AI6
	2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game port in an ISA slot

Disk Controller:
	Adaptec AHA-1542CF SCSI Host Adapter in an ISA slot.

Disks: connected to the Adaptec.
	1.44 3.5 and 1.22 5.25 floppy drives
	Seagate ST3655N 520MD Hard Disk


	When I first tried to install NetBSD-0.9 on this box I ran
into the following problem.  I eventually solved this problem by using
the AMI to turn on ROM Shadowing for the Adaptec.  I am still curious
why this worked.

	All of this works under DOS and WINDOWS, but when I got to
install NetBSD-09, I got "Device not configured errors" on my sd0
devices.

	When it is going through listing all the devices it could find,
It found the keyboard(pc0), the com ports(com0 and com1), parallel
ports(lpa0), the floppies(fd0, fd1), the math coprocessor (npx0), and
the Host Adapter(aha?), but it didn't say anything about sd0.  But it
does give "cmd/port full" errors.

	I have the 386bsd-faq and the INSTALLATION NOTES.  I have used
them to configure the system.  [note:  my experience in Un*x system
administration not PC hardware.]  When the box came they had the
printer port disabled and the irq set to 5.  I enabled it and set the
irq to 7.  However NetBSD sees it as lpa0 which is suppose to be an
interruptless parallel port.  I checked the com ports and there are
port=0x3f8 irq=4, and port=0x2f8 port=3.  I changed the scsi device id
of the seagate to 0 and the adapter to 7; they were 3 and 0.



	Now that I have that working.  My keyboard seems to lock up
when I hit the caplocks key for the second time.  I do this a lot
because the caplocks key is where I am used to having the ctrl key,
and I use an emacs clone.  So I hit the key by mistake.  The caps are
locked.  I kit the caplocks key again and the keyboard is locked.  I
unplug the keyboard, this unlocks it.  Then hit the caplocks key again
to unlock the keyboard.  This doesn't happen in DOS/WINDOWS.



	Also I am trying to get slip working between NetBSD and a
Synoptics Xyplex terminal server running LattisNet v4.1.2.  I followed
the instructions in the 386BSD FAQ, but when I try to ping anything
I get a routing error, "network unreachable".  A note:  FAQ implies
that I have an ip address and the host I am slipping to has an ip
address.  The terminal server only has one ip address for both
sides of the connection.



	Please send e-mail to scsmith@apgea.army.mil.  I have sent a
request to majordomo asking to subscribe to this list, but I haven't
been added yet.


thank,
chuck


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