From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 21 17:23:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net [199.45.39.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949611149F for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmm125@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client201-122-25.bellatlantic.net [151.201.122.25]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA23393 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:22:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36D0B107.839C9B9B@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:21:11 -0500 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD && PS/2 MCA (Micro Channel) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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