Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:21:11 -0500 From: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD && PS/2 MCA (Micro Channel) Message-ID: <36D0B107.839C9B9B@bellatlantic.net>
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I've recently acquired an IBM PS/2, which has a Micro Channel bus, unfortunately. It is a 486 DX4/100, so it doesn't have great speed, but pretty decent for a secondary machine for hacking purposes. I already assume that FreeBSD doesn't support MCA and Linux does, but maybe someone out there has gotten some NetBSD drivers to work with this machine? Some other questions: Any ideas on how to network this machine to my "good" one? I'd like to mount remote NFS, or maybe just use it as an X-terminal. I think my options at this point are serial port networking. That said, will serial-port networking work right out of the box, or do I need a special driver? Can I mount remote NFS from a Linux to a FreeBSD machine? I predict Netscape 4.5 won't run extremely fast on a DX4, but I think it will run OK though. I could boot it up with the install disk, but when I get to the install screen, my cursor keys are all screwed up, and I can't make any selections. Oh yeah, and it has two SCSI drives attached to a special Micro Channel Future Domain SCSI card. Thanks Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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