Date: Sat, 16 Dec 95 09:01:04 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #36 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 16 Dec 95 Volume 8 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: PC monitor on a Sun 3/60 Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #35 (2 msgs) twisted tip somehow what communications programs? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 01:17:32 -0800 (PST) From: James Lick Subject: PC monitor on a Sun 3/60 To: Dwight McKay Yes, it is possible. The trick is to make sure you have a multisync monitor which can do at least 1152x900 at 66hz refresh Since this isn't listed as a capability in many PC monitor manuals, look for a video bandwidth of 61.8 Khz and above. If it meets these then it will probably work. Most monitors that can do 1280x1024 non-interlaced will also be able to handle a Sun as input. This covers most current monitors, and higher-end older monitors. For the 3/60 you'll just need a SVGA to BNC cable. Larger electronics stores carry them. For newer Suns the 13BW3 to VGA adaptors are available but harder to find. PS- Certain Sun 19" color monitors also work on a Mac as a Apple 21" mode monitor. Look for "Sony P3 GDB-1962" on the back. Jim Lick - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 14:23:52 +0100 (MET) From: Heiko Krupp Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #35 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hiho... > Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 23:28:27 -0500 > From: Mike Pepe > Subject: 3/80 NVRAM dump needed and misc 3/80 questions > > Also, I have bootprom 2.9.2, and a Tandberg 150M SCSI tape drive. Can > I install SunOS off this drive, or will I have to come up with another > solution? You need a Rev. 3.x Bootrom for the 3/80 to boot from QIC150. You can get one at http://doener.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/ I also keep a paper there which describes how to patch the 3/80 Board to a higher Rev. if it can't take the 3.x ROM. Heiko. - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 12:34:20 -0500 From: McClinton_Rick@tmac.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #35 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >Date: Thu, 7 Dec 95 21:23:39 -0500 >From: "Robert L. Masterson" >Subject: Can a PC monitor be used on a color Sun? - If so, what cable is >To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I'm really starting to think I should charge Access Development Corp. for as many times as I drop their name, but they send me their catalog and it has fun stuff in it. call 1-800-228-0795 and get your own catalog. Basically, they have any cable you might want for the outside of your Sun. A 13W3 to HD15 adapter, like you're talking about, is US$36.00 in this catalog I received Nov. 29. They note your monitor must support 61.8 kHz horizontal and 66Hz vertical. Check your manual, this is the kind of thing that can break your monitor and release the magic smoke that makes it work. In case you're curious, they do have adapters that go the other way for the same price... I agree that building one's own can be cheaper and more fun/fulfilling, but I don't know if the Sun-Hardware FAQ has the info you would need to do this. Speaking of which, does anyone know what's up with thor.ece.uc.edu? after providing much Sun info, it no longer accepts anonymous logins. Is there a replacement? Rick McClinton TMA Corp rmcclint@tmac.com - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 22:49:03 GMT From: Fred Lakin Subject: twisted tip somehow To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I finally got CSLIP to work from my 1+. Thereafter I enjoyed nearly 4 months of real net connection before self-induced disaster struck ... So a quick question: I seem to have gotten tip twisted somehow. After a whole bunch of connect-and-run-tia experiments, the next day I found that explicit numbers to tip produced this without any dialing noises occuring first: tip nnnnnnn connected ie nnnnnnn is any number at all, long as digits, and produces the "connected" response. And if I use instead a label from my /etc/remote file: tip best then the modem is invoked but after dialing the first two digits a busy signal noise starts at the same time it tries to dial the remainder of the digits, only gets about 2 more out and then fails. Help! After finally getting CSLIP to work, I am suddenly netless again ... I hypothesize there must be some place that tip or somebody else is storing relevant state that I can't find. The /var/spool/locks/LCK ..* lock file mentioned in the man page is not there except when the modem is used by kermit or uucp, as it should not be. And the two files I was experimenting with, /etc/remote and the login.script, have both been restored to pre-experiment state. This setup worked for 4 months just fine before the experiments. And I'm virtually certain the modem is OK. First, kermit and uucp both work. Second, the modem doesn't even enter into the explicit number tip nnnnnnn case. BTW, cu seems to dial just fine. Any ideas? tnx, -f - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 95 15:18:27 CST From: stmckenna@amoco.com (Stephen T. McKenna) Subject: what communications programs? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com A question: what are people using for serial communications and file transfer under Solaris 2? Under SunOS 4.1.3, I used to use pcomm for communications and sz/rz for file transfer. When I upgraded to Solaris 2.4, I found that both of them recompiled fairly easily with gcc. Pcomm now works just fine for me under Sol2.4. But rz dumps core (bus error). Are there other programs that I should look into? Or, is there some trick to compiling sz/rz to work under Sol2.4? TIA, Steve McKenna stmckenna@amoco.com - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************