Date: Wed, 21 Apr 99 21:59:52 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #12 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Wed, 21 Apr 99 Volume 12 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: aspppd and CompuServe default pwd on sun386i? Freebies: Hard Copy SunOS and Interleaf Manuals (Old) FS: STP2002QFP Just a quick question... about serial ports Logging into CompuServe need help installing NetBSD on IPX Printing on SPARCclassic Sun 386i Root Password X11R +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:23:50 -0500 (CDT) From: John Petty d-4420 (504)257-1925 Subject: aspppd and CompuServe To: Jan.Klingel@edag-us.com, Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Jan, Compuserve uses a proprietary connection and data transfer protocol. In the 1980's and early 1990's this worked very well for them since it allowed them to fine-tune and tweak and get the best possible speed over 1200 & 2400 bps modems. They also switched totally over to NT servers a few years ago which obliterated the ascii text interface they had supported from the early days. I was a CServe member until a late last year. I saw the unix forums drop sharply as the new interface was implimented. Sun used to maintain a better presence on Compuserve than at their own sites or helpdesk. Once Sun withdrew support for the Sun Forum, I looked around and no longer saw the easy software and hardware support that made Compuserve such a wonderful service. I called them up and told them to drop my account. The telephone rep told me that my account number and e-mail address would still be available for 6 months if I changed my mind. I told him that I would not be back until the software and hardware companies came back, a way for unix users to log on was available, and that I had no intentions of cruising chat rooms on AOL-II. He understood. John E. Petty "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 - ------------------------------ Date: 12 Apr 1999 08:11:46 +0300 From: Ari Reen Subject: default pwd on sun386i? To: db_computers Tervehdys > Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 06:24:25 -0400 > From: db_computers > Subject: default pwd on sun386i? > To: Suns-at-home > > HELP! I've reloaded SunOS 4.0.1 (?) on my 386i, but have no idea what > the password is! I thought it defaulted to the hostname or domain or > some-such thing, but I've tried both of those.....to no avail. Any > suggestions? If you did the install from scratch then the passwd is the hostid. >... > Any help would be appreciated! > Thanks, You're welcome. Btw. thanks to all those kind people on the list who helped me to get my sun386i running. It's been up since then (it has dead nvram battery, so i cant switch it off...) 73's de ari - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:32:16 +0100 From: Granville Moore Subject: Freebies: Hard Copy SunOS and Interleaf Manuals (Old) To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Free to good, bad or indifferent home - hard copy manuals for versions 4.0 and 4.0.3 of SunOS and Interleaf (circa 1988). (Note *manuals only*, no software). SunOS 4.0 Manuals (no binders): Editing Text Files Using Nroff and Troff SunCore Reference Manual Prom User's Manual SunOS 4.0 Change Notes SunOS 4.03 (Upgrade) Manual Set: SunOS 4.03 Installation Guide SunDiag User's Guide SunOS 4.03 Release Manual SunOS 4.03 Documentation Errata and Change Pages SunOS 4.03 Change Pages Interleaf Workstation Publishing Software, Sun version (in binders): Training Manual Reference Manual Part 1 (Editing) Reference Manual Part 2 (Management) Free to anyone who'll take them away (Cambridge area, UK), or pay shipping costs. E-mail me, stating which ones you want, at gvm@nemesys.com. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 07:33:34 PDT From: "S Ashbrook" Subject: FS: STP2002QFP To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com First i would like to say i really enjoy the information that gets passed around this list. Thanks everyone! I have an SBUS card STP2002QFP for sale. it has a 100 BASE tx {RJ45}port and a MII port. If your interested make an offer. respond to mailto:ashbrook@st-louis.crosswinds.net _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:47:01 +1200 From: "Ian (Griffin) Barnes" Subject: Just a quick question... about serial ports To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Okay well I have a feeling this has been talked about before, but I couldn't find a reference to it... I am currently running Redhat on an Intel PC for shared internet access (masquarading) I have an external 56k modem and the serial port is locked at 115200, of course :-) What I'd really love is to be using my IPC for the job but I'm not sure what it's serial ports are up to, under Solaris and Redhat(Sparc) ... and wether the two would differ anyways? Ideas anyone? Ian - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:54:33 -0400 From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <76701.103@compuserve.com> Subject: Logging into CompuServe To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com RE: Connecting to CompuServe There are two different factors you have to account for when you dial into CompuServe. One is that you have to enable DHCP on your Solaris box, so CompuServe can supply you with an IP Address, Host name, DNS server information, and default router address. I honestly don't know exactly how to do this, but it's been discussed to death on the comp.unix.solaris newsgroup. Hit Deja News. The other thing is the actual CompuServe login process. This is a bit different from other ISPs, mostly because PPP was added many, many years after all the other stuff was in place. The result is that the normal PPP login sequence has to be modified to use CompuServe. I've written CompuServe login scripts for many types of machines, but not for any Unix boxes, so this is the login sequence in psuedo-code: set your serial port to eight data bits, one stop bit, no parity ("8,n,1") send commands to the modem to dial the number wait for the appropriate "CONNECT" string from the modem switch your port to 7 data bits, 1 stop bit, even parity ("7,e,1") send a control-C wait for "User ID:" send your userID, then "/noint/go:pppconnect\", then your password, then a carriage return (control-M, not a Unix NewLine) (be careful if the backslash is special in your scripting language) (I send "76701,103/noint/go:pppconnect\\my.password^M" in Win95's DUN's scripting language.) wait for "One moment please..." switch your port back to 8,n,1 begin PPP negotiation If you can't switch the port from 8,n,1 to 7,e,1 and back, you can wait for just the last couple of characters of each string; it would be best to try logging in with a normal comms program (tip, cu, kermit, etc.) to see what the characters actually are. Good luck. -Shel - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:31:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Zachary Uram Subject: need help installing NetBSD on IPX To: post+comp.sys.sun.admin@andrew.cmu.edu I have a Sun SPARCstation 4/50 (IPX - sun4c) which has a floppy disk drive but no cd-rom. I would like to install NetBSD on it. I checked the INSTALL notes from ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3.3/sparc/INSTALL but it only mentioned installing from either NFS, FTP or by tape. I do not have a tape drive either. Is there a way I can get the distribution onto 3.5" floppy diskettes and install from there? Do I need to compile the source (if so does the installation come with a C compiler?) or are there binaries for my architecture? Also I would like to add a cd-rom drive at some point (to make future OS installs easier) but I don't know what types are compatible with this machine. An external cd-rom would be best. I have a SCSI hard disk and RAM but I don't know how much I have of each, is there a PROM command I can do to see how much? Also I would like to add larger SCSI disk but again I am not sure what type to get. And I would also like to get a modem but I am not sure what type to get. I think 38.8 Kbps is the max speed for the serial port on this machine, is that true? Will NetBSD let me use PPP with my modem? I want to do the full NetBSD install including X, how much space would this take up? If anyone is selling any of these things or know where I can buy them used at a good price please let me know. Also I would like to upgrade my memory at some point, but again I don't know what I need to get? Please also CC me if you reply to newsgroup. regards Zach ________________________________________________________ uram@cmu.edu "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29 - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:44:21 -0400 From: "Jan.Klingel" Subject: Printing on SPARCclassic To: "Dwight D. McKay" Hi there, everybody knows that the SPARC LX and SPARC 20 have problems with printing out through the build-in parallel port - depending on the motherboard revision level. But what is going on with my SPARCclassic? I echo'ed to /dev/bpp0 and nothing is coming out the Lexmark 3200. I set up a lp queue and after ~1 minute the print job disappers - no error message! If I use the Virtual JetPrinter that is avaliable from Lexmark it's the same problem. If I disconnect the parallel cable sometimes lpsched notifies me that the printer is offline. Sould I buy a second SBus parallel card? Regards Jan -- EDAG, Inc. Phone +1 248 588 3134 31701 Research Park Drive Fax +1 248 588 3259 Madison Heights, MI 48071, USA www.edag-us.com - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:54:58 +0100 (BST) From: dave@newmouse.bagpuss.nu Subject: Sun 386i Root Password To: dbcomp01@on.aibn.com > HELP! I've reloaded SunOS 4.0.1 (?) on my 386i, but have no idea what > the password is! I thought it defaulted to the hostname or domain or > some-such thing, but I've tried both of those.....to no avail. Any > suggestions? Hi. Well if memory serves me correctly the default root password is the same as the Machines Serial Number. This is displayed when you first turn the machine on. Hope this helps, Dave. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:47:58 -0800 From: "jc bernardo" Subject: X11R To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com hello, how do i NOT install X11 nor any graphic manager/library when installing sol2.5.1 from cdrom media? thanks, jc get your free gURLmAIL at http://www.gURLmAIL.com - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************