Date: Sat, 6 Jan 96 09:01:08 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #1 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 6 Jan 96 Volume 9 : Issue 1 Today's Topics: can't build Minicom 1.71 under SunOS 4.1.1 (2 msgs) Help needed with Sun386i running SunOS 4.0.2 Looking for binary X distribution for sun3 serial problems at 28.8 k +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 31 Dec 1995 22:50:28 -0700 From: Subject: can't build Minicom 1.71 under SunOS 4.1.1 To: Suns at Home Folks, Alec, Miquel, Alec Muffett in Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #38: ] For the record, if you want a terminal emulator and a serial ] multiplexer for Solaris, I'd look into compiling "Minicom 1.72" and ] "Term 2.3.5" respectively, both of which I've found to be wonderful, ] and with better integration to the "Unix" way of doing things than ] gool ol' Kermit... I ftp'ed and built Minicom 1.71 from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/\ apps/comm/minicom-1.71.tar.gz, but couldn't get it to run. The TR light on my modem turned off upon invoking minicom(1), and I couldn't get minicom(1) to dial. There's this note in minicom-1.71/source/Makefile: Compiles OK under SunOS 4.1.3, but has problems with DTR and flow control Is this related? Upon exiting minicom(1), the TR light came back on. I tried all eight combinations of: Auto baud detect .... No/Yes Drop DTR to hangup .. No/Yes Modem has DCD line .. No/Yes and tried building minicom(1) with each of these FLAGS settings: Linux BSD style ioctls BSD with Posix termios Sun include nightmare Generic Sysv Posix Sysv all to no avail. Has anyone successfully built and run minicom(1) under SunOS 4.1.1? If so, can you email me your Makefile and config.h files? I've successfully built and run kermit(1), and with no trouble at all, so I'm not having any trouble with lockfiles or the serial port. Thank you, Eric De Mund http://www.ixian.com/ixian/ead/ - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 20:06:41 +0100 (MET) From: Miquel van Smoorenburg Subject: can't build Minicom 1.71 under SunOS 4.1.1 To: ead@ixian.com You (ead@ixian.com) wrote: > > Folks, Alec, Miquel, > > Alec Muffett in Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #38: > ] For the record, if you want a terminal emulator and a serial > ] multiplexer for Solaris, I'd look into compiling "Minicom 1.72" and > ] "Term 2.3.5" respectively, both of which I've found to be wonderful, > ] and with better integration to the "Unix" way of doing things than > ] gool ol' Kermit... Hey I didn't even know there was a suns-at-home digest (I have a Sun 3/60 here which boots diskless of my Linux box, unfortunately the 19" mono monitor blew up a couple of months ago - oh well, I have a VT320..) > I ftp'ed and built Minicom 1.71 from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/\ > apps/comm/minicom-1.71.tar.gz, but couldn't get it to run. The TR light > on my modem turned off upon invoking minicom(1), and I couldn't get > minicom(1) to dial. There's this note in minicom-1.71/source/Makefile: > > Compiles OK under SunOS 4.1.3, but has problems with DTR and flow control > > Is this related? I think so yes. I haven't really tried minicom on systems other than Linux recently, just compiled it, but most people seem to have more success with 1.72 of which a version (have been multiple 1.72's) can be found on ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/People/miquels (might be in UNSUPPORTED). In fact after I've finished debianizing 1.72 I might as well call it 1.73 and do an official release again.. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | miquels@cistron.nl (SP5) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + miquels@drinkel.ow.org + http://www.cistron.nl/ + fall + - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 16:17:49 -0500 From: "Jason R. Mastaler" Subject: Help needed with Sun386i running SunOS 4.0.2 To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello! I recently acquired a couple of Sun386i workstations running SunOS 4.0.2. I would like to make use of these computers despite their old age. My problem is that getting popular software from the net to compile on these dustbunnies is very difficult. I wonder if anyone out there has precompiled binaries available for this platform that I could get at. If not that, any tips from those who own these types of machines would be great. Some particulars I am interested in are the GCC compiler, Mosaic, and some GNU utils like bison. Anything would be great though. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Jason Mastaler - jason@webmaster.net - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Dec 95 00:25:35 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Looking for binary X distribution for sun3 To: tom@as.arizona.edu > Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 12:18:38 -0700 (MST) > From: tom@as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) > > I am running a 3/160 monochrome system (900x1152), and will soon > be running a sun 3/60 as well. I would much rather run X than > sunview. Can anyone tell me where I can snap up X precompiled > for a monochrome sun3? SunOS 4.1.1 includes OpenWindows version 2 (X11R3). The sun3 Xkernel distribution presumably includes the server portion of either OW2 or some more recent X release. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Dec 95 00:52:29 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: serial problems at 28.8 k To: robert@slipknot.rain.com > Date: Sat, 23 Dec 95 11:50:44 -0800 > From: robert@slipknot.rain.com > > I have a Sparcstation 1 (4/60 ?) running SunOs 4.1.3, and I recently acquired > a US Robotics v.34 (28.8 k) modem that I still haven't gotten to work right. > I have basically three problems, though two of them might be related. > > 1. Though I can get my system to accept calls and to dial out to my uucp > neighbor at a baud rate of 19200 (14400 through the modem), when I try > to bump it to 38400 (28800 through the modem), both dial-ins and > dial-outs fail. Congratulations on getting 19,200 to work. My 3/60 (SunOS 3.5) won't go over 9600. > 2. tip fails to connect to hosts defined in /etc/remote and phones in > /etc/phones. Gives me a connection failed message. However, at 19200 > I can tip to hardwire, raise the modem, do a manual ATDT to the desired > phone number, and establish a connection. See below. > 3. Using tip with the above hardwire method at 38400, I run into what looks > like overrun problems even though I've set the tip hardwareflow variable > and set crtscts on the remote host ... > > Could 1 and 3 be related? Yes, Sun serial ports with the stock SunOS drivers do not work well above 19,200. The hardware provides only a one-byte FIFO, and the interrupt latency is such that overruns will often occur. "Hardware" flow control does not work well, if at all, since the signal in question must actually be asserted and deasserted by the driver. For some Sun models, it's possible to replace the SIO chips with newer pin-compatible devices that have larger FIFOs, but this does not help much without a driver upgrade since the stock drivers read only one byte per interrupt rather than checking whether more may be available. The sparc port of NetBSD may contain such driver enhancements. > My guess is that using the Hayes ACU model, tip is failing to > recognize the connection-successful result from the modem. But > remote.1 says nothing about configuring this stuff, at least > that I could find. I had the same problem with an Intel 14,400 modem. It looks as if the result codes are hard-coded, so that it can't be configured without recompiling. One workaround is to set the modem to produce a restricted set of result codes. With mine, the only setting which would satisfy uucp was the one that also disables reporting of no-dialtone and busy conditions :-( I think tip and uucp use the same dialer code. A better fix would be to pick up a smarter tip and uucp from somewhere. I seem to recall something called slip-tip on ftp.ee.lbl.edu a few years back -- it was part of the slip package -- and Taylor uucp is available from various places. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************