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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!solace!nntp.uio.no!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!mindspring!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: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 06:04:49 GMT Organization: Bedroom Retrocomputing Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5avdco$c1u@camel5.mindspring.com> References: <pd93ewgb0uh.fsf@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de> <5aru85$82@xciv.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: kpneal@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-39-4.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 8 Jan 1997 06:04:08 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.hardware:42967 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5105 paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) wrote: >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. This particular machine (3/50) is not capable of switching. It's jumpered, period. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ - kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM "What is your fascination with Gunsmith Cats?" - me XCOMM "They blow stuff up." - Ravi K. Swamy. January 6, 1997