Subject: Re: General sun4m problems (Re: Disk formatting and labelling under NetBSD/sparc?)
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Alan Perry <Alan.Perry@Eng.Sun.COM>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/17/1996 19:09:15
> From Alan.Perry@Eng Wed Apr 17 18:53:03 1996
> I am experiencing a couple of problems getting data onto the Classic that
> I am running NetBSD on. Maybe someone else has seen the same problem.
>
> Note that I am running a build from the end of January, not the official
> 1.0 sun4m release, but these problems make it hard to load the latest stuff
> onto the machine.
>
> Problem 1.
> I cannot get the network to work on the TPE connection. OBP says the network
> is hooked up. SunOS 4.x uses it fine. NetBSD says the network is not
> connected. Someone suggested specifying "link0 link1" to ifconfig, but this
> did not work. The only thing that I have not tried is using the AUI/sound
> box interface. I really would like to use the TPE connection, though.
Well, I tried using the AUI via sound box connector Ethernet and it works.
My machine is now on my home network and I can FTP new source (like the
real 4m 1.0) to it and print on my NeXT from it.
alan
P.S. I actually mailed this note on Monday and it just appeared on the list
today.