[rescue] The continuing adventures of a boy and his tadpole.

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

When we last left our intrepid explorer, he had installed OpenBSD on
his tadpole 3GX. Following the advice of the group, I downloaded and
installed NetBSD 2.0.2 on it, being wary of 3.0 and not being able to
find it.

NetBSd was a disaster. Terminal emulation on the console was broken.
It was readable enough to do the install, but barely. When I rebooted,
it was still bad and running VI trashed the file (/etc/group) I was
trying to edit. This was caused by what was on the screen not matching
what VI expected me to be changing.

So I tried to bring up X windows by running XDM. It came up, but the
computer beeped every time I hit a key and I could not log on. 

So I gave up and reinstalled OpenBSD.

My main interest in installing something besides Solaris was WiFi support.
OpenBSD recognized my Lucent Orinco card (removed from an Apple Airport)
and I was able to connect to the OpenBSD website to download packages.
It ran for a few minutes and the computer hang so badly, the only way to
reboot it was to remove the battery or let it run down.

I rebooted and tried again and it did the same thing when I tried to ssh
to another system.

Without actually using the network, it ran for an hour before I gave up.

Tonight I tried to use a Cabeltron Orinoco clone and it recognized it
but hung before I could log on.

Both cards work fine under MacOS 9 and 10.4 and Windows XP (obivously
on different laptops).

My next step is to track down and install NetBSD 3.0.

BTW, does anyone know if NetBSD runs on a Powerbook 1400 and supports
WifI?

Geoff.

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