Date: Sat, 6 Jun 98 21:24:43 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #19 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 6 Jun 98 Volume 11 : Issue 19 Today's Topics: cdrom cabinet wanted DHCP Finding a sun Help with SPARC II Making my 3/80 go / Fixing my SLC Solaris and inexpensive color printers strange ppp problem. Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #18 (2 msgs) Sun SPARC IPC +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:43:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: kltalsma@xs4all.nl Subject: cdrom cabinet wanted To: Dwight McKay Hello, i'm looking for a external cdrom cabinet, the one that looks like an IPC/IPX but is have the height. I'm living in holland, so if someone from holland know anything please contact me, if anyone else has inormation contact me. Thanks in advance, Klaas - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 14:10:08 +1000 From: Jason Rennie Subject: DHCP To: "'Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com'" Hi, I've recently bought an old SS1+ for use at home, however i'm having trouble getting it onto the local ethernet at home. I've been reading theman pages on setting it up as a DHCP client, but i'm confused ?? Can anybody shed any light on the use of the DHCP client,for configuring the le0 interface at bootup ?? I do have a DHCP server o the network, running on the local linux server, and it works fine for the win95 boxes on the network. Any help would be much appreciated thanks in advance Jason +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Jason Rennie - jrennie@hq.switch.net.au | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Computers are like airconditioners - they | | stop working properly if you open WINDOWS | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:13:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson Subject: Finding a sun To: Wayne Hilliard > From: Wayne Hilliard > > However I can't seem to find a source for one that I can afford, (in other > words as cheaply as possible.) Try misc.forsale.computers.workstation. Just the other day I saw bare IPXs going for $90. Another $150 or so should get you a 17" colour monitor, $150 or so for 4 x 16 MB 72-pin parity SIMMs, $150 or so for a 1 GB SCSI drive, and you're set. cjs - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 23:30:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Bobby Subject: Help with SPARC II To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I have recently acquired at SPARC 2 with 48mb Ram, running SunOS 4.1.3, also has DC 600 type tape drive and cdrom. My quandary, what OS?: 1. Stay with SunOS: I like SunOs, but I need to fix Openwin (files missing) and need to find/install all of the GNU stuff I am used to with Linux (anyone out there has burned a cd with binaries for this?) 2. If I go with RH Linux, I understand I can't run any of the large binaries (Netscape) for SunOS... that would be limiting, but It would be somthing I am familer with and the directory stucture etc would be similar to my RH 5.0 machine. 3. Go with BSD - I would get the GNU stuff this way and I understand they can also run the large binaries for SunOS. Which BSD? Any negatives here? 4. Go with Solaris - I don't know much about this option or the cost. Software I eventually want on the machine includes Netscape, Lynx, Pine, Midnight Commander, ncftp, gimp, bash, slrn, gzip, zip, ircii-epic, maybe samba. I will be keeping my Linux/i386 machine also, so I have the option of running some software from that box and have the output go to that nice 20" Sun monitor :) Another question: Do any of these os's support virtual text based consoles? I use that feature a lot now. Thanks -- Bobby - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 14:03:55 +1000 (EST) From: Thorne Lawler Subject: Making my 3/80 go / Fixing my SLC To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I have two sun machines now: a 3/80, and an SLC. At the moment these are both _almost_ working, but for an obscure hardware fault each: - The 3/80 comes up just fine since I took the bwtwo framebuffer out and plugged a vt220 terminal in on ttya. I can chat with the bios-level diagnostics as much as you like, but when it tries to boot (I have an NFS boot-server with BSD ethernetted to it) it gives back this: Invalid ID PROM And goes off looking for rarp on HW adress 00:00:00:00:00 Is this a fault in the NVRAM? What should I be looking for? Help! Secondly... - The SLC, which was working just fine until recently, has developed an odd little fault: It resets. No warning, it just dies like a PC that's had it's reset button pressed. When this fault first appeared, it was an occasional thing, but it has become more frequent with time, and now it resets no more than a few seconds apart. I have tried alternative memory, and tried bringing the machine up with no devices. I even swapped the power cord with another one and tried that to no avail. Anyone got any ideas? Suggestions? Anything? Thanks in advance, Thorne -- I exist only to extend the definition of 'Omnivore' Thorne Huw Lawler, BA/BSc IV, Monash University thorin@zikzak.net or http://zikzak.net/~thorin Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne, Australia. - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:01:00 -0700 (PDT) From: System Administrator Subject: Solaris and inexpensive color printers To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Thanks to the suggestions of many, I was able to get an HP870CSE working with a SPARCstation running Solaris 2.6 to print color web pages. Ghostscript 5.10 plus the HP850C driver from http://bonk.ethz.ch/hp850/hp850.html were required. By the time I got to this point, the HP was networked on an HP JetDirect network controller that cost about as much as the printer. I presume I could have gotten the printer working directly attached to the ecpp port of the Ultra 30 SPARCstation, with a Solaris 2.6 patch 105741-02 possibly required, but meanwhile I discovered... The solution I would recommend, starting from scratch, is to buy an inexpensive Lexmark printer (e.g. 7200 for $260) and their Virtual Jetprinter software for Solaris ($83), which combined with an IEEE 1284 cable and the Solaris patch mentioned above, works reasonably well with somewhat less labor than assembling all the parts to build Ghostscript. I ended up doing this when I first couldn't get the HP to work, and now my family has found uses for the HP as a networked printer for PC's and Macs, so I use the Lexmark as my local color printer. I would like to thank everybody that worked on Ghostscript and its drivers and everybody on this list that offered helpful advice. - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 07:46:37 -0400 From: Ray Pfaff Subject: strange ppp problem. To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I have a really weird ppp problem that I hope that one of you might be able to give me a hint on. I have a Sparc IPC running SunOs 4.1.3U1. I have the latest version of pppd (either 2.0 or 2.2, unfortunately I'm not in front of the Sun at the moment). I've installed the jumbo tty patch from Sun. I was running PPP just fine using a Practical Peripherals 9600 baud modem. That modem recently blew the power supply (fortunately not connected to the Sun at the time) and I've replaced it with a 14.4 U.S. Robotics and 14.4 Zoom modem. Nothing else has changed, not even the cabling. When I dial up my provider, the script runs just fine and I'm assigned an IP address. If I try to do anything after this, the system just hangs as if there is no connection. For example, when I ping a system I know is up, I see the send/receive lights flash on the modem, but the ping will eventually time out. Has anyone seen this before and can maybe give me a clue? - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 20:07:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #18 To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com As Dwight McKay wrote... > Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:44:29 -0400 (EDT) > From: Wayne Hilliard > Subject: Finding a sun > To: Suns-at home > > Hi hey I hope you people can help me. > > I would like to get a sparc system to mess around with as I have fallen > deeply in love with Unix after I have been running Linux for a couple of > years on a intel box. > > However I can't seem to find a source for one that I can afford, (in other > words as cheaply as possible.) I've contacted local collages etc. But no > luck :(. > > So if any one has a suggestion for a source I would be forever indebted, > well at least for a couple of days. Check out NetBSD and OpenBSD. There is also a SparcLinux out there somewhere. Being a BSD fan I favor *BSD. www.netbsd.org and www.openbsd.org respectively. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ - ------------------------------ Date: 29 May 1998 21:19:14 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #18 To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com >From: "John Cushnie" >Subject: Toshiba CDROM with a SUN Sparc 2 >I have ordered my new NVRAM chip - from Maplin here in the UK. >The one in the box was a MK48T02B-25, and they stock a MK48T02B-20. >Anyone know what is the difference ? Speed. You got a faster chip than you need. No problem. >Now I have looked at my CDROM drive and it is a Toshiba XM-5401B >The only models I can find in the SUN CD FAQ are Toshiba 3301/3401/4101. Sparcs won't boot off, or probably use, a CDROM drive unless it's been modified or configured to support 512 byte transfers. That's what you need to find out... -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document | "Settle down, boys. There's pain enough for everyone in net.*." | | -- Kate Wrightson | - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Jun 98 15:17:02 From: "Paul Khoury" Subject: Sun SPARC IPC To: "Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com" Does anyone here know about a Sun SPARC IPC? I had an offer for one for $100.00, which I might get soon. I need to find a cheap keyboard, mouse, and CRT for it, though, and maybe a modem for the internet (or just use Samba). Also, does anyone know where I would be able to sell my SPARCbook off for parts? I showed it to a friend that knows about Suns, tested the memory, saw my error, and said it could be a DMA controller or something in the hardware. I'd like to keep the memory and hard drive, but I'd like to sell the rest, as it's just another thing to get broken, and takes up space. Thanks. -- Paul Khoury | | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS http://warped.cswnet.com/~pkhoury/index.html (you can link to the TP Assistant from here) Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, DR-DOS/Novell Netware 7.02, and Sun Solaris 2.4 - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************