Date: Sun, 8 Mar 98 19:00:22 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #10 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 8 Mar 98 Volume 11 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: Help needed in Seattle Networking question. Obtaining UNIX for my SPARCbook Please HELP! Need to setup terminal as monitor for IPX PPP clients Problem with Emulex MT02 and Archive Tape Drive Solaris 2.3 printed doc. set for sale Some 3/80 questions... SPARC printers using lpvi on Solaris 2.x using ghostscript SS4 internal SCSI Sun monitor for sale... SunOS works fine on SPARC 5 Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #9 (2 msgs) Y.A.N.U +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com | | Requests: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 00:28:22 -0500 From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <76701.103@compuserve.com> Subject: Help needed in Seattle To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com Folks- I've managed to screw up my /etc/passwd file, and can't log in at all. "No shell" it says.... It seems that the only fix for this is an OS re-installation, and I can't find my Solaris 2.5.1 CD-ROM. I don't have a CD-ROM drive, anyway, just the IPX box. So, can anyone in Seattle or environs help me out? I need to use a Solaris 2.5.1 CD and a drive to read it with. Naturally, I'll come to you.... Thanks. -Shel shel@cis.compuserve.com 425-643-4494 - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 23:48:40 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodworth Subject: Networking question. To: SUNS-AT-HOME I currently have a couple of 3/60's that are networked using the bnc connectors on the back. I want to put these onto a network that uses 10baset wire. I know its posible to get adapters for the AUI and BNC ports to go from those to 10baset, but the hub that is used has a BNC connector on it. Can I just hookup the cable to the bnc connector on the hub from the 3/60's? (of course as long as its terminated) Would this work? I think the BNC connector on the hub is for cascading hubs together. But could it be used for the 3/60s? OR does it depend on the hub itself? Thanks, Keith kwoody@citytel.net - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 98 20:58:38 From: "Paul Khoury" Subject: Obtaining UNIX for my SPARCbook To: "Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com" Does anyone know what versions of SPARC UNIX would work on my Tadpole SPARCbook 3GX? It has a corrupted version of Solaris 2.4 on it. Unless there is a source of cheap Solaris copies. I am a student, and don't have too much to spend on just an OS. Thanks, -- Paul Khoury http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (the above url only works when the server is running) Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4 The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 23 Processes with 87 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 23h 41m 49s 398ms. - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:55:50 -0500 (EST) From: Zachary Uram Subject: Please HELP! Need to setup terminal as monitor for IPX To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, I recently acquired a Sun IPX (4/50), but it didn't come with a monitor. I would like to get a Sun monitor but they are a bit outside my price range now (I called Sun and they quoted $500 for refurbished b/w monitor and $800 for color_, SO it seems I must use a terminal. I have a Wyse 50 terminal which I would like to connect to my IPX. It has 2, 25-pin female ports (one modem and one aux), my IPX has a 13W3 port and a 15-pin female serial port, so I went to Radio Shack to get a 15-pin male to 25-pin male connector to connect my 15-pin female poirt on the IPX to my 25-pin female port on the Wyse, BUT he said there isn't any such connector, so now I have no idea how to get this terminal hooked up. Can someone please tell me what I need to do. Thanks! Zach uram@cmu.edu PS: oh yeah how do i join this mailing list? right now i am reading the monthly message posted to the USENET group. [ I've added you to the list. You can subscribe by sending e-mail to ] [ sah@net-kitchen.com or via our web page: ] [ http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah. --ddm ] - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 19:47:41 -0800 (PST) From: Eric De Mund Subject: PPP clients To: Edward, Edward Mitchell to Suns at Home: ] Most of the PPP info in the digest seems to revolve around making ] a machine a PPP server..that is all well and good, but all I want ] to do is make my homely Sparc 1 a PPP client, via my local ISP, so ] that when I decide to slack off and telecommute, I can establish a ] decent connection, preferably without a whole bunch of ] hassle....anyone?(sought FAQ, but everything seems oriented around ] PPP servers, not clients). Maybe I'm missing something *really* ] simple? Visit Celeste Stokely's *Unix Serial Port Resources: PPP/SLIP* page, *PPP FAQs & Info - Sun* section, at URL . There you'll find a link to my *PPP + Slirp* page featuring: * recipe (version 1.02) to build and run PPP on a SunOS 4.1.1 SPARCstation 1 that will communicate with a remote host running Slirp * help text (version 1.00) extracted from slirp(1)'s internal help facility (and seemingly not available in Slirp's documentation) and placed into a text file * ppp-up (version 1.02) is a Bourne script that invokes pppd(8) and establishes a PPP connection with a remote host running slirp(1) * ppp-down (version 1.00) is a Bourne script that sends a TERM signal to the pppd(8) process, killing the PPP connection and hanging up the modem and links to several other useful pages by other folks. As a serious aid to prolonging your sanity and increasing the quality of your life, do bookmark her *Stokely Consulting* site. It's at . Regards, Eric De Mund "Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere." --Robert Bly -- Eric De Mund | Ixian Systems | 53 49 B2 23 AF 6C 20 81 http://www.ixian.com/ead/ | Palo Alto, CA | ED DD 4C 81 AA C9 D1 A5 - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 21:56:48 -0800 From: Kevin McQuiggin Subject: Problem with Emulex MT02 and Archive Tape Drive To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi: I'm having a bit of a problem installing the NetBSD Sun 3 distribution from tape. My 3/60 has an MT02 tape controller and an Archive QIC-02 60 MB tape drive. On booting from tape (>b st(0,8,0), where LUN of the MT02 is set to 1), the tape drive is located by the NetBSD kernel as "st2" rather than "st0". The NetBSD install kernel needs to have the tape drive at "st0" to install the miniroot. I cannot get to st2 from the booted kernel ("device not configured" on mt -f /dev/nrst2 rewind). I have located the MT02 docs, this tells me how to change the SCSI ID of the controller, but not the device ID of the tape drive. How do I set the tape drive to "st0" from "st2"? I can locate no docs on the drive itself. There are a couple of jumpers on it but without docs I'm in the dark! Thanks, Kevin --- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi@sfu.ca - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:20:06 -0800 (PST) From: rodgers@cgl.ucsf.EDU Subject: Solaris 2.3 printed doc. set for sale To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Dear Fellow SAHers, We have one nearly complete set of Sun Solaris 2.3 manuals for sale: These are in mint condition (many were still in their original shrink-wrap bundles). Although we will consider selling them singly, we would prefer to sell them as sets. Send me email if you want a complete list of the individual documents in the sets. We are asking $150 for the set. The books (weighing 62 lbs.) can be shipped by any means specified by the buyer, who will be expected to cover shipping costs. Regards, Rick Rodgers (rodgers@maxwell.ucsf.edu) - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:31:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Saxby Subject: Some 3/80 questions... To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello there, I have been given a 3/80 and am trying to restore it to health, it's NVRAM is shot (I'm buying a replacement when I can afford it). Will I have to program in all the values using an EPROM programmer before I put it in the 3/80 or can I just enter all the values I need from the ROM monitor? I have also added a 105Mb hard drive and a floppy drive from a SPARC 2, and want to boot it from the 60Mb tape drive in my 3/260. Will I have any problems connecting the tape drive straight into the 3/80 internal SCSI bus using the connector that comes off the 3/260 backplane? I have tried booting the machine from the 105Mb HD (using the ROM monitor)(yes I know it won't work as the architecture is totally different) but it complains there is no such device. Is there some configuration data I have to set to tell the machine it has floppy drive, tape drive and HD (as it net-booted when I got it) Thanks in advance, Gavin. ______________________________________________________________________ | Caeser adsum jam forte | Gavin Saxby | | Brutus ad arat | | | Caeser sic in omnibus | Heriot-Watt University | | Brutus sic in at | Edinburgh | |____________________________________________|_________________________| - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:26:28 +0100 (MET) From: Nick Hibma Subject: SPARC printers using lpvi on Solaris 2.x using ghostscript To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com In case anyone fancies this information (it is quite a while ago that I did it, so get back at me in csae of questions. I can look it up on the machine): ..... SPARCprinters on any SBus SPARC machine running Solaris 2.x using ghostscript. - install the NewSprint software package. This installs a kernel driver for the lpvi port. Make sure that the card is already in there when you install the software. This installs the kernel drivers for the lpvi ports. - Install a printer for every port you have (don't remember if this was strictly necessary, but it does no harm either). Give them strange names like lpvi1thing. - Reboot (your lpvi ports should show up in startup messages). - Install ghostscript and compile it with SPARCprinter and lpvi support. - Install the printer using admintool and use a script like: -------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # add this interface using # lpadmin -p printername -i /usr/lib/lp/model/scriptname pprinter=`basename $0` prequid=$1 puser=$2 ptitle=$3 pcopies=$4 poptions=$5 shift 5 pfiles=$* logfile=/tmp/$pprinter.log date >$logfile echo "Parameters: '$pprinter' '$prequid' '$puser' '$ptitle' '$pcopies' '$poption s' '$pfiles'" >>$logfile cat $pfiles | /usr/local/bin/nenscript -p- -i " " -Z -L65 | /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=sparc -sOutputFile=/dev/lpvi0 - -c quit >>$logfile 2 >& 1 status=$? echo "errorval = $status" >>$logfile date >>$logfile exit $status # mkdir -------------------------------------------- to convert postscript to SPARC format and print it directly to the lpvi port. Use /dev/null (or so) as the printer port in admintool (NOT /dev/lpvi, otherwise exclusive access is not granted to gs). - Uninstall the printers using the newsprint version of the printer installation program, somewhere in /opt//bin: /opt/NeWSprint/bin/rm_np_printer This setup works quite nicely here. Especially if you have an IPX that you can put in the corner to do this converstion you have a quite speedy setup. The printer and ghostscript combination is not slow at all! Nick Hibma former sysadmin STA-ISIS, Joint Research Centre, Italy building: 27A tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 11:58:07 +0200 (EET) From: Niiranen Samuli Subject: SS4 internal SCSI To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I recently purchased an used SS4. I'm trying attach a CD-ROM drive and a hard disk (both 50-pin SCSI, CD-ROM is the toshiba "1 drive). I've found two connectors on the mainboard which look like SCSI-connectors. The first one is labeled J0902 ( 80-pin SCA?), and the other one is labeled J0901 (50-pin connector; identical with the SCSI-connector on the backplane). Can attach my CD-ROM and hard disk to the J1301 (or is it even a SCSI-bus) ? .samuli - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 13:00:03 -0800 From: "anthony t. daga" Subject: Sun monitor for sale... To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a Sun monitor for sale, as I no long have the workstation to connect it to. The model # is GDM-20D10, manufactured march '94, has the remote control, 20". If anyone is interested, email me at anthony@mksrc.com with an offer. I'm in the san diego area. Thanks, anthony - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 13:28:32 -0600 From: Greg Polanski Subject: SunOS works fine on SPARC 5 To: william.salmon@cna.com, Perry Hutchison , SunOS 4.x works fine on SPARC 5 boxes In fact we are finally getting many users to move to Solaris 2.6 from SunOS. _______________________________________________________________ Greg Polanski greg_polanski@adc.com ADC Telecommunications, Inc. MS 85 612-946-2270 PO Box 1101 612-946-3292 FAX Minneapolis, MN 55440-1101 612-538-1833 pager _______________________________________________________________ - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 09:44:03 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Leir EPS Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #9 To: Dwight McKay > I'm running Solaris 2.5 on my Sparc-LX, and set up local HP Lajerjet IIP > for the machine. But I'm having a problem, the printer HP-LJ IIP with > Pacific Page Postscrip Cartridge is not working. my foggy memory recalls that you need to send Control-D to catch the attention of the printer. also, i think that cartridge has two modes, HPPCL and Postscript, but i don't recall the control code. Rick Leir rleir@igs.net http://www.igs.net/~rleir 613-828-8289 7951 Rocinante "Keep your head cool, your feet warm and you'll make the best doctor poor" - Hermann Boerhaave - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 09:40:32 -0800 (PST) From: Jay Hennigan Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #9 To: stn@cc.tut.fi, Dwight McKay Samuli Niiranen wrote: > I recently purchased a used sparcstation 4 and am now searching for a > compatible monitor. I' ve found a couple promising ones : Sony > GDM-1950, Sony GDM-1901-12 and SGI CM2073A. Anyone used these with Sun > workstations ? The GDM-1950 works very well, I'm reading this message on one connected to an IPX. You'll need a cable to go from 13W3 to 4 BNC connectors. The monitor has five connectors (R, G, B, HSync, Vsync) but you only need to connect to the first four, as the monitor will accept composite sync on the HSync input. -- Jay Hennigan jay@west.net -- WestNet: Internet service to Santa Barbara, Ventura and the world. 805-892-2133 805-289-1000 805-578-2121 - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 17:58:43 +0100 From: Morten Tandle Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #9 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com In message <199802282221.RAA16561@tigger.net-kitchen.com> you wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:31:27 +0000 > From: Timo Geusch > Subject: Sun on PC monitor? > To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Listers, > as I dare to be different - is it possible to use a PC (multisync) monitor > with a Sparc CG6 framebuffer? The monitor is definitely capable of displaying > the different modes the frame buffer can provide, but where do I get a > 13W3->15 pin VGA adapter? I bought mine about a year ago from Joe McCarthy (see below). He shipped it to Norway, no problem. Works like a charm. There are a few other places who sells them too. Sun's distributor here in Norway have them, but wanted $250 ... (If you like to, the Sun Hardware FAQ contains pinouts and instructions on how to make your own...) -Morten mtandle@sn.no Details: "Adapter A1 - DB15 Female VGA to 13W3 Male" Quoted price was $30. Fed Ex to Norway was another $27. * Joe McCarthy | mccarthy@si87.com * * Software Integrators Inc. | 800-547-2349 (toll free) * * 104 East Main Street | 406-586-8866 (voice) * * Suite 206 | 406-586-9145 (fax) * * Bozeman, MT 59715 | 406-586-9610 (bbs) * ************************************************************ * WEB PAGE -> http://www.si87.com * - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:59:43 -0600 From: william.salmon@cna.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #9 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com In reply to my posted message, thanks to all who responded. I received numerous answers to my question, and I have since found the problem. It had nothing to do woth OS version, it was the placement of the DIMMs. Apparently, Sparc 5's need the memory to be staggered every other socket to work correctly. At least that fixed mine. Every thing works great now. Thanks again. Wes - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:59:37 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Schaefer Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #9 To: Dwight McKay I am looking to buy a Sun workstation to learn about the Sun systems, and about Solaris. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to buy, or what to look for? I have all PC things right now, and will have to buy evrything, monitor, keyboard, etc. I am looking to do this as cheaply as possible, while still getting a system that I can learn a lot from. Any help and/or information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Andrew Schaefer www.thehill.org/~aschaefe (610)935-8707 - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:55:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Randy K. Wilson" Subject: Y.A.N.U To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi Everyone, In keeping with what appears to be a tradition (at least recently from what I've seen in the archives), I'd like to announce Yet Another New User, me. Actually yet another new member would be more accurate; I've had Sun equipment in the house for several years. A pair of mono 3/60's. The 3/60 was fun, but alas, I became frustrated with the lack of support for SunOS4.1.1 (espcially dynamic ppp). I screwed together a Linux x86 box, and the poor Sun laid dormant for about two years. The real story begins last weekend. I did some major upgrading to the Linux box, which included stuffing in an old ethernet card someone had given me. The 3/60 was put back to life as a Xterminal. Neato. A 19" screen THAT I CAN READ! But... it is mono, would be real nice to have color. It must have heard me, as at that exact moment, the flyback transformer went out with a scream. :< Monday I related the story to the guy thst turned me on to the 3/60 deal several years ago. He made a phone call, which lead to a phone call, which lead to .... Wednesday night I had a pickup loaded with 5 20" hitachi colors, 3 3/60's, 2 4/110's, cables, keyboards, manuals, and a SGI Personal Iris (but that's a different mail group). I haven't been to sleep since. :> I stumbled on to this mail group via a web crawlwer that pointed me to the archives. I'd like to thank the group for being here. I've already gleaned much information, and it appears several more questions will be answered by the much more recent version of James Birdsall's hardware guide. His 94 edition was instrumental in reviving the first 3/60, and the 97 version I just snarfed appears to have some real indepth stuff on the 4/110s. This leads me to the one question whose answer I may not find in the archives. I could use a copy of SunOs4.1.1(u1) for the sun4 architecture. There is a QIC-?? tape drive in one of the shoeboxes, but since I plan one running diskless with the Linux box as a server, other media would be fine, and even preferable. Does anyone know of a source? -- Randy K. Wilson randy@exis.net - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************