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From: terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: More booting problems... (Bus mouse?)
Message-ID: <1992Jul20.194749.10441@gateway.novell.com>
Date: 20 Jul 92 19:47:49 GMT
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In article <1992Jul20.181732.16089@uvm.edu>, wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul20.172313.13821@gateway.novell.com> terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
|> >
|> >Where 386BSD won't run:
|> >
|> >AT&T 6386/E WGS (with bus mouse on Intel motherboard)
|>
|> How can I tell which motherboard is which? We have a 6386E (several,
|> in fact) which I *know* worked with 0.0, and I need to run 0.1 on one
|> as soon as I can liberate it from its current task as a StarLAN
|> server.
Look at the "back" of the machine (under the top cover, if a tower configuration)
for where the keyboard connects in. If the keyboard connector is a (9 pin?) DIN,
then there is probably a mouse port to the left of it, indicating an on-board
BUS mouse, and probable failure for 386BSD. Another way of checking is to look
at the motherboard itself: if there are two slots to the left of the line of
jumpers, then you have the new board.
Top view /---/---------- Mouse and keyboard connectors
v v
,--------------------------------------------------.
| ,--.--.--.--.--.--.--.--. ,-. ,-. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | `-' `-' |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | <--- Front
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| `--`--`--`--`--`--`--`--' |
`--------------------------------------------------'
New board Old board (2 fewer slots)
---------------- ... -------------- ...
,-. ,-. ,-. ,-. ,-. ,-.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | <---- slots ----> | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | :| | :| | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | :| | :| | | | | |
: <-- jumpers --> :
....
---------------- ... --------------- ...
Anybody have a machine with a built-in bus mouse that works? Did you have to
change anything (jumpers, CMOS, etc.)? Did the default kernel (TinyBSD) boot
for you without modification?
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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