[Simh] NetBSD 5.1 on MicoVAX 3900 boot error

[Mark Pizzolato]

Actually, the latest simh ‘supported’ WinPcap is npcap.

Npcap is part of the nmap project and directly shares the latest libpcap code.

Npcap has a BSD license like the original WinPcap did.  Win10pcap is a GPL package and is untested and unsupported for use with simh Ethernet devices.

Npcap is available from: https://github.com/nmap/npcap/releases

From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Mark Abene
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 3:07 PM
To: Bob Supnik <bob at supnik.org>
Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] NetBSD 5.1 on MicoVAX 3900 boot error

Should one want winpcap in Windows 10, all one needs is:
http://www.win10pcap.org/

-Mark


On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Bob Supnik <bob at supnik.org<mailto:bob at supnik.org>> wrote:
You can get a pre-built Windows 32b 3.9 executable without Ethernet (and therefore, without needing WinPCap) here: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/sources/simhv39-0-exe.zip. It should run fine under W10. See if it will boot NetBSD 5.1.

/Bob Supnik


On 4/18/2017 3:53 PM, simh-request at trailing-edge.com<mailto:simh-request at trailing-edge.com> wrote:
You shouldn't need WinPCAP merely to test if the CD image is bootable.
The point of the boot test exercise is to help determine if the problem is
in NetBSD or due to recent changes to simh.  If changes to simh are at
fault, I'll track it down and fix the problem.
I specifically want to run a 5.x version of NetBSD. I'm pretty sure it did
run on SIMH 3.8-1 on Windows 7 before the upgrade. I need to downgrade a
laptop I have to Win7 in the future and may try that. Until then I'll play
with OpenBSD which doesn't seem to have any problems with SIMH 4.0 beta.
The boot test I'm suggesting will be far less work than setting up another
system.

Let me know.

- Mark

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