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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: SUN3/50 Ethernet Problem Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 02:42:15 GMT Organization: Bedroom Retrocomputing Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5apop3$iql@camel5.mindspring.com> References: <pd93ewgb0uh.fsf@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de> Reply-To: kpneal@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-39-4.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 6 Jan 1997 02:41:39 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.hardware:42898 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5087 aheit@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de (Andreas Heitmann) wrote: >Hi, >I have an old SUN3/50 with NetBSD 1.2 installed and I'm now trying to >set up a local network with a linux box. The machines are connected >with a standard ethernet cable (BNC). I'm using the BNC connector at >the SUN, not the AUI port. When trying to configure the interface le0 >on the SUN, NetBSD says that the carrier is lost. I checked the >cabling and it seems ok (length is 30m, T-connectors with 50 ohm >terminators at both ends). Am I using the correct interface device? Um, is the board jumpered to use the BNC port? There is a jumper on the motherboard for this. Anybody remember off the top of their head which jumper it is? It's not hard to guess. I just don't remember the exact name. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ - kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM "Comments in code are kinda useless, anyway." XCOMM -- Brian Rumple, TA for my OS class, NCSU. November 6,1996