With some help from the list, I have NetBSD running now, for the first 
time on any machine. I'm impressed by how spare the OS is compared to 
Linux.

However -- I have a coder's cable and I don't know where to start with 
it and with NetBSD. So, two things: can someone tell me how to perform 
an operation (any operation) using the cable between a DC and a Linux 
PC? And can someone tell be how I can set up SLIP (or whatever) to 
work over the cable, including how to configure the serial interface? 

I have reason to believe that the cable is OK, since I could at least 
make the screen flicker when using it in dclinux (though I had no 
further luck than that).

Thanks.

-- David Robinson