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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!hookup!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.galt.com!alex From: alex@phred.org (alex wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: HP Vectra systems? Date: 9 Feb 1995 15:41:27 GMT Organization: Phred Networking Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3hdd37$m88@dagny.galt.com> References: <3giv5f$pd@crh.cl.msu.edu> <3hbomd$mn@nova.np.ac.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ng Pheng Siong (ngps@np.ac.sg) wrote: : In article <3giv5f$pd@crh.cl.msu.edu>, : Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> wrote: : >Has anyone here had any luck running Net/FreeBSD on HP vectra systems? Given : >that nearly every component is integrated, and I seem unable to get technical : >stats on it, im curious.. Thanks! Sorry, I missed to original post. Anyway, I'm running NetBSD 1.0 on an HP Vectra right now (typing on it as we speak too). The integrated video controller is an S3 that runs XFree86 quite well (too bad it only has one meg of video memory though, because that means running at 1024x768 with these great 20" monitors). We aren't using the onboard ethernet because the machine already had a 3c503 in it (this is a machine in a lab, no idea of its history). The SCSI-2 on the soundboard is a aha-1510, which NetBSD supports, but I haven't messed with the audio. Seems to be a Cardinal audio board, which I've had little luck with in anything (including Windows NT). If anyone gets logons working over the IR serial port please let me know. We have tons of omnibooks around here, and it would be great to be able to plop them in front of this machine and get a terminal session going. So far I've been able to get the IR to work with anything but the laplink program that comes w/ the omnibooks. alex