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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:4338 comp.sys.att:6024 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!duncan Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.att Subject: Need Hardware Description for AT&T StarStation Message-ID: <BttwxH.JHI@comp.vuw.ac.nz> From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:41:40 GMT Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand. Nntp-Posting-Host: bats.comp.vuw.ac.nz Lines: 33 [Excuse the cross-posting, but I figured there might be more people over in comp.sys.att that could help with this question...] I have 386BSD running on an AT&T 386 based StarStation (kind of ironic really, especially since the machine was won in a competition :-) The OS works fine, and the machine is connected to our campus network using a western digital ethernet card. Now, I would like to be able to try using the ethernet card on the motherboard, but I don't know what kind of card it is. I could not see any mention in the manuals we received, nothing in any of the BIOS setup screens identified it, and the machine came straight from AT&T in the U.S rather than via distributors here in NZ who I could easily ask. Assuming it was one of AT&T's own cards, I built a kernel that included a driver for the StarLAN-10/EN-100 series cards, recently posted to alt.sources by Garrett Wollman. The resulting kernel failed to find the card during autoconfiguration. Before I start digging deeper to discover whether I installed the driver correctly, I would like some confirmation (or otherwise) that I am on the right track. On a related note, I would appreciate knowing what type of graphics adaptor the motherboard contains - ie, VGA or SVGA, which chipset, etc. Again, I can find nothing in the manuals that gives this information. All I can find that might help identify the machine are the numbers stamped on the back, which are "MODEL CPU-G73B, PEC 3734-G73B CC 106788821". I would be grateful if anyone could provide the information, suggest where I could get it from, or tell me what else I need to provide to allow the components to be identified. Thanks in advance. Duncan