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From: storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD - Few Questions
Date: 13 Aug 1993 13:13:04 -0400
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal
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In article <24aju2$d67@jadzia.csos.orst.edu> cntrline@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Centerline Computers) writes:
>
>2) I want to use a network board to connect the two machines (or should I just
> use a serial connection between the two units?) I've seen quite a few
> ethernet boards, and I'm thinking of a 3COM 3c509, or NE2000 board from
> Arcnet, or others. The main thing I'm interested in is driver support for
> NetBSD because it's the only thing I'm going to run it with. Please suggest
> the least hassle free board, with the best driver support (if possible)...
These Net/2 Derivatives mostly work with NE2000 clones, WD8003/8013
clones, and the 3Com cards. I recently did a survey, and the
resounding winner was the SMC Elite/ 16 card, which had the best
performance overall, and a great price tag.
>3) Is it possible to run X on a DOS machine, with the above network board? Is
> there any PD software available to do this? If not, what are the commercial
> packages, and who makes them, or which one is the best? [optimally, is there
> one that will run X in a windows 3.1 window? -- dreaming?]
You can run X with the 386/Net/Free|BSD systems, and there are tonnes
of X packages for Windows 3.x, but since I only use DOS at work (and I
avoid it there even) , I have little knowledge of such packages.....
>5) Is there any work being done on a driver for Colorado's Trakker 250 tape drive
> (Parallel Port QIC Tape Drive for DOS)?
Some crackpot (Jesus something) has been working on some drivers for a
few years now, and has all these cute little newsletters that keep
coming out about how hard it is to write said drivers, and blah blah
blah blah blah. Net result is that not a line of code has come out,
some other dude has some preliminary drivers working already, and
the general consensus is that this Jesus guy is a complete blithering
idiot, although nobody will say it outright, because we're all too
polite. :-)
Read the comp.os.386bsd.* archives on minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au for more
info on where to find the actually available and working drivers.
Toodlepip!
Marc 'em.
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Marc Wandschneider Montreal, Canada
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