Date: Thu, 20 Aug 98 16:51:34 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #26 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Thu, 20 Aug 98 Volume 11 : Issue 26 Today's Topics: Changing the IP address of my SPARCbook evil Sun suspend mode Free SLC/ELC chassis in Austin, TX Help Request. Sun serial ttya TO HyperTerminal NIS question problems installing SunOS 4.1.4 onto an SS1+ (2 msgs) Query: attaching new printer to old Sun +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 16 Aug 98 00:37:46 -0800 From: "Paul Khoury" Subject: Changing the IP address of my SPARCbook To: "suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com" How can I change the IP of my SPARCbook to 192.168.0.x? I don't even know what it currently is, though. I'd like to do the same on my IPC when I eventually get it up. Also, with the free Solaris Sun is giving away, is 12MB of RAM okay for small TCP/IP apps? I'm going to expand to 24MB soon. Thanks -- Paul Khoury | | Sent from my P75 http://warped.cswnet.com/~pkhoury/index.html Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3 & 4, Mac OS 7.5.3, Sun Solaris 2.4, Newton OS1.5 ICQ#14582895 - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:36:00 -0400 From: Gary Sabot Subject: evil Sun suspend mode To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Does anyone now how to turn off the action of the power key at the upper right side of the Sun type 5 keyboard with solaris 2.6? It puts up a "please confirm suspension of system state", and if you hit return or click the wrong button, your machine is suspended, which isn't good if it is a server! xmodmap doesn't seem to get to the keystroke soon enough so remapping it does not help. Maybe the binding is buried in some deeply hidden CDE init file? --gary _______________________________________________________ Gary Sabot | Voice: (781) 647-7776 Sabot Associates, Inc. | FAX: (781) 647-7779 10 Carroll Circle | Internet: gary@sabot.com Weston, MA 02493 USA | ------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 19:17:26 -0500 From: William Bradford Subject: Free SLC/ELC chassis in Austin, TX To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com I've got one SLC chassis and four ELC chassis (everything except the slide-in system board) free for pickup in Austin, TX. Email me if interested. (I wont ship these; I dont have the time) -- Bill Bradford * mrbill@frenzy.com ------------------------------------------- "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 19:06:58 -0700 From: "Edward A. Solorzano" Subject: Help Request. Sun serial ttya TO HyperTerminal To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Hey Gang I Need Help !!! Im trying to use my PC as a terminal so I can get rid of my Sun monitor and keyboard, but I dont know why the session never gets established. When I start the Hyperterminal, the window just stays blank, No text ever appears. Im not sure what my Suns ttyA port settings are? Im assuming 8 data bits, Parity = none and 1 stop bit. In any case Im sure someone out there knows what Im tring to do and how to do it. Here's what Ive already tried. I have a Sun 3/60 workstation running Sun OS 4.1.1 (PROM version 1.6), What I'm tring to do is connect the Sun's ttyA serial port to my PC via a HyperTerminal session. What I've done is connected a null modem cable to my PC's com port 1 and the other end of the cable to the 3/60's ttyA serial port. Before turning on the Sun workstation I disconnect the Sun keyboard so the system will redirect all output to ttyA after a short time period. The HyperTerminal never receives any text, it just stays blank even after hitting the return key several times. Any suggestions? Listed below are details of the Terminal setup. HyperTerminal Properties: Com port 1 Settings: VT100 Ive also tried VT52, ANSI and Auto Detect. Port Settings: Bits per sec. 9600 Ive also tried 4800 and 2400. Data Bits: 8 Parity: None Stop Bits: 1 Flow Control: None Ive also tried Xon/Xoff and hardware. Any and all input will be greatly appreciated. Question #2: How do I display my systems settings at the PROM level? HELP doesn't get me very far. Thanks in advance. Eddie - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 19:51:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Bobby Subject: NIS question To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com I have a SPARC running Sun-OS 4.14 and and also a Intel based Redhat Linux box. The Sun is configured to as a NIS client and the Linux box as the NIS server. NIS is used for name resolution, but I like the fact that the id's & pw's stay in sync between the two boxes. Problem: If the Linux box is down for any reason, the Sun will not boot the OS. This as not been a problem yet, but is there a keystroke to tell the Sun to forget the NIS server and go ahead and boot the OS? The Sun also seems to get heartburn if the Linux box reboots and then it has to be restarted also. Due to this I may just reconfigure and ditch NIS altogether. Comments welcome.... -- Bobby ============ http://bboone.home.mindspring.com/ ================= ======= linux links | Security | Humor | Ham Radio | Misc ========== ==================================================================== - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:38:50 +1000 (EST) From: Craig Dewick Subject: problems installing SunOS 4.1.4 onto an SS1+ To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com Hi folks, I'm trying to install SunOS 4.1.4 on a SS1+ (bootROM v1.3) so I can build an X11R6.4-based Xserver under a SunOS 4.1.x environment for use with Sparc's running as Xterminals. The machine has a 540 meg SCSI drive at ID 3 fitted, and 28 meg of RAM. The first problem I'm experiencing is with booting the miniroot from the disk once it's loaded off the CD. MUNIX loads fine, and so does the miniroot, but choosing the option to reboot using the miniroot fails. MUNIX tries to reboot using 'sd(0,0,1) -sw', but I've had to manually boot the miniroot using 'b sd(0,3,1) -sw'. This works fine, and the miniroot that I've just pulled off the CD loads and starts, but then it tries to fetch an IP address by doing a reverse ARP, instead of dropping to a shell prompt so I can run 'suninstall'. This isn't the way the miniroot is meant to work from my past experiences with 4.1.x installs. 8-) Anyway, if I set up /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts on this machine so that rarpd will send back a valid IP address to the SS1+, the miniroot on the SS1+ then tries to talk to a bootparam server... argh... This, as far as I can tell, is *not* the correct way for the SunOS 4.1.4 miniroot to behave. It seems rather bizarre for the miniroot to be wanting to fetch info from the network since that prevents me being able to get a shell and fire off 'suninstall'. Any comments, suggestions, etc.? Regards, Craig. -- Craig Dewick. Send email to 'cdewick@lios.apana.org.au' Point a web browser at 'http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick/sun_shack.html' to access my archive of Sun information and links to other places. For info about Sun Ripened Kernels, go to 'http://www.zeta.org.au/~craig/srk' - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 10:52:13 +1000 (EST) From: Craig Dewick Subject: problems installing SunOS 4.1.4 onto an SS1+ To: peter winterflood On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, peter winterflood wrote: > The problem is that the hard disk should be targeted at 3 and this > should be the default boot device. > someone has chaged the settings in the nvram and so the boot loader is > picking up disk 0 as the boot device. > The system should attempt to boot from target 3 when you do a b > at the boot prompt. Ack - of course! The NVRAM has a variable called 'sd-targets' which maps SCSI ID's to logical disk numbers, and once I checked, I found that the NVRAM had indeed been altered so that 'sd-targets' was configured as 01234567 instead of the correct 31204567 Fixing this fixed the mini-root booting problem. Isn't it funny how such a simple cause is most-often overlooked? 8-) The alternative would have been for me to re-configure the SCSI drive so it was set to ID 0, but it's better to go with the standard practise to save future headaches, so I left it at ID 3 and reconfigured the NVRAM instead. Regards, Craig. -- Craig Dewick. Send email to 'cdewick@lios.apana.org.au' Point a web browser at 'http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick/sun_shack.html' to access my archive of Sun information and links to other places. For info about Sun Ripened Kernels, go to 'http://www.zeta.org.au/~craig/srk' - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:07:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph C Fineman Subject: Query: attaching new printer to old Sun To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com For reasons that need not concern us here, I run Solaris 2.3 (not maintained) on a SPARCclassic, which I bought in 1994 and do not understand very well. At the time, I was using a Star dot-matrix printer, which I had little difficulty attaching to the new machine. Now, however, that is wearing out, and I would like to buy a laser or inkjet printer, such as have become inexpensive in the meantime. I worry, however, that it might not be possible to attach it to the Sun without excessive trouble & expense: Will I have to upgrade the operating system? Will it suffice to buy a printer that talks a language (say Postscript) that my computer knows about, or are there other issues such as cabling? Would buying one with Sun's name on it do any good? My printer needs are modest. Might it be simplest to buy a new dot- matrix printer (I see they are still being made)? Does the naivete of my questions suggest that I should hire someone? --- Joe Fineman jcf@world.std.com ||: The church is near, but the road is icy; the tavern is far, :|| ||: but I'll go carefully. :|| - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************