Date: Sun, 26 Jan 97 21:07:02 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #3 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 26 Jan 97 Volume 10 : Issue 3 Today's Topics: -----> Disk Crash at Network Kitchen! <----- Adding RAM to a 3/50 (Helios Card) need assistance getting pppd(1) + slirp(1) up and running Sparc 1/PCWin95 Network help??? Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:00:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Dwight D. McKay" Subject: Disk Crash at Network Kitchen! To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I had a very bad weekend for technology around my house last weekend. In the space of three days, I crushed the touch screen on my Newton MessagePad, and the disk in tigger.net-kitchen.com died. Worse yet, the 4mm tape drive I have on tigger had failed back in the beginning of November and was one of those things I really should have gotten around to getting repaired, but had not. The result is that I have lost all the issues of Suns-at-Home since November 9th along with whatever subscription changes (additions, changes, deletions) have occured since then. I'm really sorry if you're getting this digest and have unsubscribed, please send mail to suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com and I'll take you off the list. If you know someone who has recently subscribed, please give them my appologies and ask them to subscribe again. If you have a copy of the digests from November 9th through last weekend's digest, please contact me at dwight@net-kitchen.com. Thanks. -- Dwight D. McKay -- dwight@net-kitchen.com -- http://www.net-kitchen.com - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:01:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Karl W. Reinsch" Subject: Adding RAM to a 3/50 (Helios Card) To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I am attempting to add 8MB of RAM to a 3/50 with a Helios daughtercard. I have seen some discussion of this subject in the archives, so I'm hoping for some explicit help from those of you who have done this. This is my first "Sun-at-Home" and thus the first I have really opened up and worked with. Anyway, I have a Sun 3/50 which boots with XKernel off of a Linux box. (The system reports "Sun 3/50M - ROM Rev 2.0" when it comes up.) Because it is booting XKernel it is using a SunOS 4.1.1 kernel. The daughtercard I am attempting to install is a Helios Systems/PIICEON MS50A. Installation requires removing and reseating into the card the MMU, the PCHK, and 4 ICs. I installed the card as is and and machine comes up just like before. The machine and the kernel report 4MB memory as present. So, apparently I need to change some EEPROM settings: 0x14 (EEPROM 014:) installed memory (in hex) 0x15 (EEPROM 015:) tested memory (in hex) Thus, possible settings for these values should be: 04, 08, and 0C. I have tried modifying these values and nothing changes. The machine and the kernel still report 4MB memory as they come up. I have tried many different SIMMS in hopes that there was a bad one. I have tried using the card with only 4MB instead of 8MB. Nothing changes. It behaves the same as before. Is there something I am doing wrong? Is there something I have overlooked? Oh, lastly, an article in the archives mentioned that this card has a plastic clip for attaching to the bracket at the back of the motherboard. My card does not have this. How badly do I need it? Any help is appreciated. Thanks! -karl. kreinsch@radix.net - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 04:32:29 -0800 From: ead@ixian.com Subject: need assistance getting pppd(1) + slirp(1) up and running To: People, I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 on a SPARCstation 1 and just installed ppp-2.2 . I've configured it, but I'm not sure if I've done so correctly. I wish to get it up and running with (local) tip(1) and (remote) slirp(1). Has anyone done this before? This SPARCstation 1 is a standalone host that has never been set up for networking. Once I get my local configuration correct, is it possible to establish a ppp connection this way: [*] (local) invoke tip(1), logging in to remote host shell [*] (remote) invoke slirp(1) [*] (local) issue ~C and respond to tip(1)'s "Local command?" prompt with "/usr/local/etc/pppd ipcp-restart 4 ipcp-max-configure 5 \ lcp-echo-failure 3 lcp-echo-interval 30 debug crtscts kdebug 17 \ /dev/ttyd0 38400" Is there more I need to do to my local configuration besides these: [*] pppd(8) options file: lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 3 debug defaultroute crtscts noipdefault mru 552 mtu 552 defaultroute asyncmap 0 netmask 255.255.255.0 [*] resolv.conf(5) file: domain growler.org nameserver nameserver nameserver Thank you for any and all assistance, Eric De Mund http://www.ixian.com/ixian/ead/ "It's harder to solve people's problems than it is to design really neat products." --Stewart Alsop - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:43:33 -0500 From: Bill Kearney Subject: Sparc 1/PCWin95 Network help??? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:04:39 -0500 > From: Howard Huntley > Subject: Sparc 1/PCWin95 Network help??? > To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > I am using a SPARC 1 SunOS v4.1.1 to PC/ win95. I have installed the PCI > network card and connected to the transceiver vie ethernet null modem RJ45. > The previous owner of the SPARC 1 system had the system networked to a MAC, > so the SPARC 1 boots up looking for Apple talk expecting to talk to a MAC. > I need to reconfigure the SPARC to look for a PC/Win95. Can some one point > me in the right direction??? You're going to need to explain this a bit better. What do you mean the Sparc is looking for Appletalk? I can't thing of a good reason for SunOS to 'need' to see Appletalk at boot time. Maybe it's got some processes running at boot time that expect to see an Appletalk routing setup (zones) and they're not present. If that's the case then look in your /etc/init.d and/or /etc/rc3.d and see what it thinks it's doing. As for having it 'look' for the PC, again, explain what you mean by 'look for the PC' since that's not something the Sun normally needs to do. If you want to get access to the Sun from your PC then you're going to need to install Samba on the Sun. This will let you share your Sun filesystem to the PC. When you ask a question you gotta give us more detail. - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:45:03 -0500 (EST) From: "R. D. Davis" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #1 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > From: misawa@dogbert.lbl.gov (Shigeki Misawa) > Hello. > > Clueless Newbie question here. > > 1) Does anyone have any advice on how to choose an ISP ? > > A cursory look at the nationwide ISP's (AOL, ATT, NETCOM) seems to > suggest that they are geared towards providing access to Wintel and > Macintosh machines (clients ?) Unless you're reasonably certain that your system is secure, and you've got another system that you can sacrifice to put between it and the 'net, and you're willing to take a chance, a dial-up "shell" account's possibly the best bet... but that's not what would be the most fun! I've also been looking into this, and the results have been somewhat discouraging. Just about all of the so-called Internet service providers seem to refuse to provide a reasonably priced, true, direct, Internet connection, which doesn't involve PPP or part-time (not full time!) SLIP. There may be some good news, however. The local cable TV company is beginning to offer Internet service, and is looking into allowing people who've registered their own class C domain with the Internick to use a cable-modem attached to their home network for a direct 'net connection, for a reasonable fee. > 2) What's involved in connecting a SPARCstation running Solaris 2.5 > to an ISP ? > > I gather that I will need a modem and set up PPP but is there more ? > (e.g. how is mail handled if at all, what about ip-numbers and name > resolution ?) PPP? Bletch! Try to fond someone who will let you have a direct connection with your own registered IP domain, without PPP. > 3) Also, do any of the ISP's have tech support that can handle Unix > "clients" ? Surprisingly, the Internet-service sales people at the cable-TV company actually knew what UNIX was, and were _nice_ about it! What's needed is a good virus (aside from Microsoft software) to permanantly render most Microsoft Windows, including NT, systems more useless than they already are. This way, the number of people using them to connect to the Internet would dwindle, and then the internet service providers would have to begin prividing the type of service that we want. :-) Ah, how nice that would be! -- R. D. Davis http://www.access.digex.net/~rdd rdd@digex.net, rdd@mystica.uucp Computer preservationist. Many types of Home telephone: 1-410-744-7964 unwanted older computer systems disassembled, Work telephone: 1-410-744-4900 removed for free (locally) and preserved. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************