Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 10:04:55 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V3 #7 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 19 Feb 90 Volume 3 : Issue 7 Today's Topics: Help needed configuring serial port on 2/120 how do you print-at-home with a PS printer? Need help with Sun 2/120 Sun-2 device driver sources? Wanted: My first Sun. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:08:05 EST From: sangho@ssi3b1.zone1.com (Sangho Yoon) Subject: Help needed configuring serial port on 2/120 To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu How does one configure a serial port on a sun 2/120 to be both a dialin and dialout port? I've followed the instructions in the sysadmin manuals but to no avail. As I understand it, if I have ttya set up as ttyd0 for dialin and cua0 for dialout, getty should not be spawn until a hard carrier detect signal is asserted by the modem. I reconfigured the kernel so that device zs0 has a flag value of 0x02 but no change. Anyone know what I am doing wrong or even if what I am trying to do is possible? The system is a 2/120 revision R with 2MB, SCSI controller, Ethernet, and monochrome video, running SunOS 3.2. Sangho ------------------------------------------------------------- Sangho Yoon - ...{mit-eddie,pyramid,datacube}!mirror!ssi3b1!sangho sangho@ssi3b1.zone1.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 00:31:52 EST From: biggers@bass.rutgers.edu (Mark Biggers) Subject: how do you print-at-home with a PS printer? To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Hello, I am interested in hooking up a PostScript laser printer to my Sun 2/120 at home. I am aware of Transcript, devps, and such, and know that I need some software handshaking between the PS printer and the Sun (I'm running SunOS 3.4 now). However, sources for either program are expensive, and I'm not sure how much I care about troff output (though it'd be nice). I could go with TeX, just hack PS code or produce some whizzy PS filters to print stuff. Any suggestions - what do you do? ==thanks, mark biggers@bass.rutgers.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 10:34:09 EST From: sangho@ssi3b1.zone1.com (Sangho Yoon) Subject: Need help with Sun 2/120 To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I recently acquired a couple of 2/120's and a 2/50 and am in need of a little assistance. Any help would be much appreciated. 1. The 2/50 has a 15 pin connector in the back for the keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately, my keyboards and mice only have RJ11 telephone jack style connectors. Does anyone have wiring specs so that I can make an adaptor? 2. One of the 2/120's doesn't seem to recognize the keyboard or the mouse. I can access the system through a keyboard connected to a terminal on ttya but this doesn't allow me to use a mouse. Anyone have ideas on what might be the problem? Sangho ------------------------------------------------------------- Sangho Yoon - ...{mit-eddie,pyramid,datacube}!mirror!ssi3b1!sangho sangho@ssi3b1.zone1.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 00:34:29 EST From: biggers@bass.rutgers.edu (Mark Biggers) Subject: Sun-2 device driver sources? To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Does anyone know if Sun ever plans to release their sources for Sun-2 device drivers, kernel startup code, and the like, for SunOS 3.X (4.x is a pig, who cares)? Now that the Sun-2 is officially software-orphaned, this would allow Sun-2 owners to make fixes/enhancements more easily. And surely at-home users like ourselves can't fork over mucho $$$ for SunOS/UNIX source code. Any comments? cheers, mark (biggers@bass.rutgers.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 03:44:37 EST From: "Bob Powell" Subject: Wanted: My first Sun. To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Greetings! This is my first posting/submission to Suns at Home, and it takes the form of a question (or, more properly, a series of questions). I am looking into getting my first Unix system for use at home, and a Sun is at the top of the list. My concerns are: o 'net access. What sort of hardware and software would be needed? What about getting a newsfeed? o MS-DOS capability, either "emulated" (via software under Unix), "true" MS-DOS (as on a 386i), or via co-processor. o cost. I know Unix isn't a cheap world in which to live, but is this a prohibitively expensive idea? My next employer will most likely be the US government, in the form of either the Air Force or Navy; will I be able to properly care for a Sun with a yearly income of approx. $15K (single, no kids, no house payments [least not for a while], no car payments [truck's already paid for]? I've heard Suns can be problem children, and expensive ones at that (but we love them anyway...:) ). Everything else is pretty much negotiable, and I realize this is where most of the potential expense will come in. I'm willing to start with an "old" minimal system (eg, used Sun 2 [unless there's a Sun 1?], 386i, or Sparc- Station [how much are those things used, anyway?], mono monitor, ~100 M disk [floppy for backup?], 4 M RAM), and add stuff later. Color would be nice, and tape backup, and more disk space, and more RAM. Besides 'net access and DOS, I'm not really out to run any "big" software (eg, no real-time video processing). Document processing, spreadsheets, and communications are my primary applications. I know a PC with appropriate software would get me close to what I want, but I need a graphic windowing environment, multitasking, and the hardware to support them, without the (what I perceive to be) spit-and-chewing-gum kludges common in the PC world. I know I've asked a lot of questions, and, if it's been discussed already, tell me so. If there are any good books on this subject, tell me that too. I'll check the archives and see what I can find there. Bob Powell rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************