Date: Sat, 23 Sep 95 11:45:17 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #25 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 23 Sep 95 Volume 8 : Issue 25 Today's Topics: Connecting a 3/110 to a newer monitor For Sale... Now that PPP works... v3.0.1 3/60 bootrom +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 22:13:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Grover Subject: Connecting a 3/110 to a newer monitor To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com I've got a sun 3/110 with a cgfour frame buffer that has the BNC connectors for RGBS, and I would like to connect it to a monitor I have that has the 13W3 connector on back. Is there an adapter cable for this ? Does anyone have one for sale, or know if this will work ? The monitor is a Sony 1604A15 (sun part number 365-1063-01) Thanks, Dean - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:04:53 +0000 From: A5673644611@attpls.net (Kent Parkinson) Subject: For Sale... To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com Like new SPARCstation's for sale. We are in the process of reconfiguring our network and have the following equipment for sale: Sun SPARCstation IPX's w/16" color Sony monitor, 16Mb RAM, internal424Mb hard drive, internal floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, external Sony CDROM, external Archive Viper QIC-150 tape drive, all standard accesories and original packaging. Solaris 2.3 release media w/hardware updates, Administrators Answerbook, WABI 1.1, original documentation. Price: $3,200 SPARCbook II,s w/color LCD disply, 32Mb RAM, 640Mb internal disk, external Sony CDROM, external Archive Viper QIC-150 tape drive, all standard accesories and original packaging. Solaris 1.1 and Solaris 2.3 release media w/Administrators Answerbooks, Lotus 123, Island Productivity Series. Price: $4,300 This equipment was purchased NEW in August 1994 for a consulting project. It has been meticulously maintained in a climate controlled/UPS environment by experienced UNIX administrators. For furter information, please contact. Kent Parkinson Senior Consultant Parkinson and Associates 209 East Navajo St. West Lafayette, IN 47906-2154 Phone: (800) 292-0306 - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 21:28:10 -0700 From: guycole@netcom.com (Guy Cole) Subject: Now that PPP works... To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com I'm on a SS1 under 4.1.3_U1 and I have a working PPP (ppp-2.1.2) install. I can telnet and ftp with wanton abandon. My internet service provider only caters to the Windoze/Mac crowd. The documentation they supply about PPP seems to indicate that I can set up SMTP, net news and a web browser. Of course, my ISP is not equipped to answer questions about Sun (or they are pretending they can't). I'm sure some of you have done all this. What news reader did you use? Web probably means Mosaic. How about mail? I'm interested in RTFM pointers if you have them. TIA! //Guy - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 16:06:43 +1000 (EST) From: Craig Dewick Subject: v3.0.1 3/60 bootrom To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com > I'm trying to install a CG6 into my sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1.1u1 with > 24 MB RAM. I can't get X11R5 to work with the machine, nor the boot > PROM tests. Which X11R5? Pre-compiled binaries or have you built X from source on your machine? Without a v3.0.1 bootrom the card won't be useable at all from the ROM monitor. Hmmm, I wish I had 24 meg of ram in my machine! I'm stuck with 12 until the prices drop again (a 1 meg x 9 30 pin SIMM costs around A$65, so four at a time is going to be A$260! ouch). > I ran into a couple references that I need the boot PROM v3.01 (?) to > get the CG6 to work on my sun. I guess I have a few questions about > this: > > (1) do I need this version of the boot PROM to get the board to work, > or just to run the PROM diagnostics? I would think that the kernel is > what would be need to support the framebuffer. Older bootroms (earlier than v3.0.1) don't support cg6 framebuffers. The kernel will work with them though having a v3.0.1 bootrom does help a great deal with other things, such as supporting 150 meg SCSI tapes drives for booting, etc. > (2) how do I upgrade my sun to this version of the boot PROM? where > is the PROM I need to replace? can anyone help me in acquiring a PROM > with the version? Anyone who wants a copy of the binary image for the v3.0.1 bootrom can email me and I'll mail it to you in uuencoded form. You'll need an EPROM programmer capable of programming 27512's, and a couple of blank 27512's to program (one to use, and a few spares). > (3) am I on the right track at all or am is this a hopeless situation? Upgrading to a v3.0.1 bootrom is a good move. Installing a cg6 *and* a v3.0.1 bootrom is an excellent move, especially since the added advantages of both are very worthwhile. Since you seem to want to run X, having a cg6 is very beneficial. I'm running X11R6 here on my 3/60 with a cg6 which also has been upgraded to run at 25 Mhz instead of 20. Details of how I did this mod are now included in James Birdsall's Sun Hardware Reference available from ftp.picarefy.com in /pub/Sun-Hardware-Ref. Regards, Craig. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************