i got the custom kernel from brian and things went great!!!  however, i was
compiling an even more custom kernel (with some minor modifications, brian's
was just to get ethernet access so i could mount the NetBSD source tree off
of the machine it is on.  in the middle of the 'make depend' (or maybe closer
to the end) i got this error:

May 22 12:59:28 rtfm /netbsd: ed0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun
May 22 12:59:28 rtfm /netbsd: ed0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun

just like that.  'make depend' seems to have stopped (remember that the source 
tree is NFS mounted)

any ideas?

-brian

-- 
I'm asking because I've got two VS3100's in need of a real and pleasant to
use operating system.  (VMS is unpleasant and Ultrix is not a real OS). 

		-Brian D Chase (asking about NetBSD support of the VS3100)