Hiya,

I posted my reply to only the sender...
Thought it might be usefull if it was on the list in general.... Also I
checked out some more stuff....

----- Original Message -----
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
To: <port-newsmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: 15 October 1999 16:44
Subject: Barsted News.


> So I acquired this Sony NWS-3250 laptop-like thing... It's a newsmips
> I'm sure.  It has an r3010 in it and what appears to be 12MB of RAM.

.....

I have the same model.


> Basically, when I power it up, the screen backlighting comes on and the
> disk spins up, but I see nothing out the serial port and nothing appears
> on the screen.  Inside there are 4 LED's labelled 0,1,2,3.  Almost
> immediately after powerup led #1 blinks at about 3hz.

Can't say I know a lot about these things but I have an old sony news box,
The
only way I can get it to power up is to hold the reset button thing in
(small button on the left of the box) whilst holding the power button on for
a 10 seconds or so. Then release the reset *before* the power.

In fact you need to release the reset about 5 secs before the power then the
far back red ligth comes on  then release the power and hey presto it boots.

If you release the power button too soon it goes off.

Think its a slow SCSI drive problem on mine.
Sounds kind of similar problem symptom wise.

> There are two blocks of dip switches, a block of 4 and a block of 8.
> Both are all "off".  I've tried various combinations and can get no
> different behavior.

The dip switches are I believe to do with memory installation.
Or so it says in the user manual, unfortunatly it gives no clues how to set
them :(

Hope this helps,
Good luck,
M