[talk] Fwd: 2017-03-25-netbsd-hpcmips.img

[George Rosamond]

Sevan Janiyan:
> Hello,
> 
> On 31/03/2017 14:03, George Rosamond wrote:
>>> tpctl means "touch panel control", special setting for 
>>> hpcmips/arm/sh. I'll make comment out next hpcmips image.
>> 
>> There's touch panel control support on the WorkPad?  That confused 
>> me...
> 
> No, there are other devices supported in the hpcmips port which do 
> however http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/hpcmips/supported_machines/

Ah, got it.

> 
>>>> I would love to upload a dmesg to dmesgd.nycbug.org for it... 
>>>> but since the wi(4) driver for my wireless PCMCIA cards isn't 
>>>> included in this image, and there's no ethernet, no USB..  I 
>>>> have to get a NetBSD box up to mount the CF card to post it.
>>> 
>>> What kind of card you have? give me some infomation to
>>> re-compile kernel.
>>> 
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>> I have three cards donated by other NYC*BUG people.
>> 
>> * rtw (on OpenBSD) Realtek 8180 RTL8180F which is a Linksys
>> 802.11b card
>> 
>> * another Realtek 8185 which uses re(4) I think.  It's from Encore
>>  Electronics
>> 
>> * then the closest to wokring is the wi(4) from Microsoft MN-520 
>> which I think requires firmware.  ISL3873 PRISM2.5
>> 
>> Huge thanks if you could add any of those drivers in... it saves
>> me from having to cross-compile on some other ancient hardware.
> 
> The only cards which will work on a device of this vintage is PCMCIA
>  cards (ISA in Card form factor), more recent Cardbus cards (PCI in 
> Card form factor) wont.
> 
> You can distinguish the two types by the presence of the gold strip 
> above the connector. That means the card is of a cardbus type & wont
>  work. eg 
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/XJACK_network_card_extended.jpg
>

Yup.
> 
Got it.

> 
< wont work.
> 
> rtw & re are pci devices. :(
> 
> How about a nice ne(4) device instead? (any 10Mbps PCMCIA card, some
>  100Mbps PCMCIA cards). All supported wifi cards should be compiled 
> in, I think.
> 
> What do you need to do to get the Microsoft card working usually?
> 

I have those three cards... just need the wi(4) driver for the Microsoft
MN-520 card, which is the only ISA format one I have.

>>>> Sorry for combining a how-to with a mention of the 
>>>> tpctl-induced headache...
>>> 
>>> yup!thanx for your report.
>> 
>> Thank you for making this easy without having to cross-compile.
>> 
>> Not quite sure how I'm going to use this.. but I'm positive I wont 
>> build perl from source like Sevan :)
> 
> Dedicated awk workstation? :D or Implement: 
> https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/riastradh/asiabsdcon2015/pkgsrc-cross-paper.pdf
>

ha!  "And this is my computer just for sed and awk" is a tough line to
justify a square foot in NYC's real estate climate!

>
> 
>> Any ideas on using resize_ffs(8) besides doing from another NetBSD 
>> box?
> 
> Can you use the following rc script? (normally 
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/distrib/utils/embedded/files/resize_disklabel?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN
>

Cool.

I'll check that out later.

Huge thanks Sevan and Jun.

g