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Re: 3c590
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Sep 5 12:50:10 1996
To: "John J. Novak" <jjnovak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Sep 1996 01:00:06 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 12:49:50 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> hi there. I wrote last year trying to get someone's netbsd with
> 3c590 (I think--590 or 509--the more uncommon one) working, but the
> fixed disk image that I got from I forgot where didn't work (failed
> to set the card's transfer to some type of method, I
> believe. Someone told me they knew and were going to work on fixing
> the kernel). I was wondering if this got fixed over the summer? And
> has athena 8.0 reached NetBSD yet (not that I see a major
> difference)?
You can try using /mit/netbsd/dev/machine-specific/new-drivers/README
to install on a 3C590. You may want to wait until the NetBSD 1.2
release (which will be out... sometime), since people have reported
problems with the new-drivers kernel.
