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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!cs.utk.edu!usenet From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD/IBM thinkpad 365X Date: 02 Oct 1996 21:00:44 -0400 Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Lines: 43 Message-ID: <x7hgoc6ev7.fsf@ig.cs.utk.edu> References: <52tldf$b88@pandora.cs.utwente.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: ig.cs.utk.edu In-reply-to: peterb@pegasus.esprit.ec.org's message of 2 Oct 1996 11:58:39 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <52tldf$b88@pandora.cs.utwente.nl> peterb@pegasus.esprit.ec.org (Peter Bosch) writes: I'm looking for information/pointers re. running NetBSD on a IBM thinkpad 365X before actually buying one. Is anybody running NetBSD on this machine? Don't know about this particular model. I have a TP750, which needs a few patches before NetBSD will run. In particular: + some code in the keyboard probe routine needs to be commented out so that it won't reset the keyboard and cause it to generate different and incompatible scan codes. + netbsd's ps/2 mouse probe code is broken; it uses functions that IBM's documentation specifically says won't work. I wrote an alternate probe routine, but the easiest thing to do is just fix it so that it always thinks the device is present. + the thinkpad 750's apm bios uses 4k of the lower 640k of ram; the netbsd kernel has to be told not to use this. this might not be a problem for a 365X. + netbsd has no built-in pcmcia code yet; you need to splice in patches from somewhere on the net. I can supply a kernel that works on my machine, and patches that will work with netbsd 1.1 and probably 1.2 also. Keith -- -- Keith Moore http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/ Computer Science Dept. / Univ of Tenn / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN 37996 Terrestrial governments have no authority in cyberspace.