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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: SUN3/50 Ethernet Problem
Date: 6 Jan 1997 22:27:17 GMT
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In article <pd93ewgb0uh.fsf@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de>,
	aheit@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de (Andreas Heitmann) writes:

> 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

NetBSD should auto-detect what port you're using I think, but the last
time I configured NetBSD/sparc I had to use the 'link0' (or was it
'-link0?) option to ifconfig to force the right type.

-Paul-

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