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From: toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Rory Toma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Help with 2nd ethernet card!
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:46:20 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.misc, comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Not bloody likely around here!

I am having the following problem.

I just installed an Sbus ethernet card in our Sparc 2 server, due to the
length of our thinnet. Diskless sparcs boot OK from the 2nd ethernet
interface, but complain about /tftpboot after logging in. When I try to
boot the Sun 3's as Xterminals, running Xkernel 1.4, they do OK to the point
of starting the X server. They then hang, and complain about the server
not responding. Am I missing something obvious? I've changed the host files,
bootparams, etc...

Thanks
--
toma@tc.cornell.edu - Rory Toma

Opinionated and tunnel-visioned? Darn right. But then, my employer really
doesn't know what I'm talking about anyway...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson)
Subject: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:12:21 GMT

greg@itc.gu.edu.au (Greg Watson) writes:

>In article 16695@exlog.com, mcdowell@exloghou.exlog.com (Steve McDowell) writes:
>>Out of idle curiosity more than anything, can anyone tell me
>>what calls the _halt_and_catch_fire() routine in locore.o?
>>

>The halt_and_catch_fire routine triggers a trap 0xC8 which in turn calls a routine
>that is guaranteed to cause the processor to stop, possibly triggering a watchdog
>reset.

>It's called from a couple of places that are undef'ed in the code I have. It
>appears to be used when a CPU id check fails.

>It is only supported on the sun4m architecture.

>Greg


A little bit of topic, but interesting none the less.  The Apple][ plus
had a register in the C0xx range ( the actual addresses escape me right 
now ) that if you poked into it, would physically burn out 2 gate chips.
Apple][ developers called this the "Smoke Poke"

Joe Triv signing off.

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3630 comp.periphs:1099
From: cjr@ssi.UUCP (Cris J. Rhea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.periphs
Subject: USR Modem on ALM2???
Keywords: modem, ALM2, v32, sun
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:29:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Inc., Eau Claire WI

Recently, we bought some U.S. Robotics V32.bis modems to upgrade
our modem pool at work.

Put one on a Sun 4/110- worked- no problem.
Put one on a Sun IPC- worked- no problem.

Tried to put one on our communications server (a Sun 3/180 with an
ALM2 for the modem bank)- couldn't get it to work for beans.

We are locking the line at 19.2K and setting up the modem accordingly.
When calling in, the login prompt was always garbled, along with the
password prompt, the MOTD, etc. You could type your login and password,
but the prompts were garbage.

We tried all the obvious stuff like :ap: and :p8: but finally came upon
the following for a solution that would work:

	:sp#19200:ms=-parenb,cstopb,onlcr:


Since we normally run 7-1-odd or 7-1-even, the above struct us as pretty
strange (Never, I-mean-NEVER run 2 stop bits at greater than 110 baud...)

So, my question to the net is this:  Is there something strange with
the parity handling/bit timing on an ALM2, or is it just some interaction
with a USR modem and the ALM?

I can't believe that it is the modem if I can run on an IPC with 
just 19200.std.

--- Confused

Cris


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: INFO-SUN2 (do there exist a mailing list for Sun2 users?)
Summary: A mailing list for the users of Sun2 equipment
Keywords: sun2 mailing list
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:11:08 GMT

Anyone know if there exist a mailing list for users of Sun2 machines? If not,
then I've set up such a thing at:

	info-sun2@lysator.liu.se

For subscription/removal/other administrativa send mail to:

	info-sun2-request@lysator.liu.se

This list will discuss just about anything about the sun2 (hardware,
software etc).

/Peter

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University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: unpalomb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Nicholas Palombo)
Subject: Sun machine name/capabilities
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:39:58 GMT

   I was just wondering if someone would be so kind as to email a list
of the various Sun computers to me. What I need is to know the various
designations (i.e. 3/50, 3/60, etc.) and what the differences are in
these machines. I really only need to know the machines from the 3 series
on up.

Thanks.

Nick Palombo
unpalomb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
From: ram@lynx.imagen.com (m.v.s. ramanath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: SUMMARY (Getting SUN sales to return calls)
Date: 13 Aug 92 01:06:35 GMT
Reply-To: ram@lynx.imagen.com (m.v.s. ramanath)
Organization: imagen

In article <1992Aug11.181735.9819@newscan.canada.sun.com>, beric@sunvcr.canada.sun.com (Beric Maass [Sun Vancouver SPS]) writes:
|> In article 46C@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG, gordon@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Gordon Vickers) writes:
|> >     I recently posted an article asking for a contact at Sun Sales
|> >   since I can't seem to get anyone there to return my calls, and that
|> >   even includes the Sales department head.
|> >
|> >     I recevied nearly two dozen responses. Thank you to all. I wish I 
|> >   could send each of you an individual "Thank you" and would if my
|> >   mailer worked better (mailer at work, since mail send to this account
|> >   gets forwarded there).
|> >
|> >     Roughly 50% of those replying suggested I called 1-800-USA-4-SUN.
|> >     I did, but they just referred me to my local sales office.
|> >
|> >     The other 50% was sympathetic and related similar experiances.
|> >
|> >     So far I have made on behalf of my employer, six calls during the
|> >     past three weeks to SUN, and I am still unable to order anything.
|> >     I call representing my employer, a SunSoft VAR.  Gee, if they would
|> >     only sell us something, maybe we could help them make more money.
|> >
|> >     In summary, if you  need a Spark or better, try H.P., IBM, or even DEC.
|> >     You may not walk away with a SUN machine, but calling SUN won't get
|> >     one of those either.
|> >
|> >     Thanks again to those who responded. 
|> >     Gordon
|> >     gordon@zorch.SF-Bay.org
|> >
|> 
|> In response to your posting, I noticed a few people pointing you in the direction of Sun Express.
|> They are the group most suited to handle your issues; perhaps you might want to follow that
|> advice.
|> 
|>   --Beric

Or, talk to one of the Sun clone vendors (Tatung, Hyundai, CompuAdd)
and buy a clone. I bought one from CompuAdd after I had the same
problem getting calls returned by SMCC and am quite pleased with the
product. It runs SunOS 4.1.2 right off the SunSoft CD.

Ram
[I speak only for myself. I have no connection with CompuAdd other
than being a satisfied customer]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.open-look
From: eyring@cc.utah.edu
Subject: Seeking CG6 help.
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:46:12 MDT

Seeking CG6 HELP.

We are looking for help in reading/writing directly to the frame buffer on the CG6.
The man pages hint that you can mmap the device.  We need the specific offsets.
Any help or ideas on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.  Any direction
to sources that already do this would help.  Thanks in advance.


-- 
>Bob Witmer
>Eyring Corp., Flight Simulation Div.
>Salt Lake City, Utah
>eyring@cc.utah.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3765 comp.sys.sun.hardware:3935
From: ojuarez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Octavio Juarez Espinosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Help hardware and software for network of SUNs for parallel computing
Summary: help
Keywords: help
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:38:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc
Organization: I.T.E.S.M. Campus Monterrey



Hi,

I am very interested in ask about hardware and software for SUN versus
CM5. May be do you know about this.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Octavio Juarez Espinosa

ojuarez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx

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Gabriel Valerio 1134 
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Mexico  email ojuarez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3632 comp.sys.mac.comm:7852
From: fradin@irisa.fr (Marc Fradin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: "lpr" from mac : how to check password on SUN ?
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:45:38 GMT
Organization: IRISA, Rennes (Fr)

I would like to use an extension of the lpr protocol
to check userid/passwd when somebody print from a Macintosh
using the Peter DiCamillo's "lpr" client.

I'm looking for an "extended" line printer daemon for SUN !
Is it available ?

Thanks in advance !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: reetz@news.colorado.edu (Mike Reetz)
Subject: Format.dat entry for IMPRIMIS 94221-190...please...
Summary: format.dat request...
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:02:00 GMT


The subject line says all..tells all..sees all.

Please respond.

Thanks in advance.
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From: sim@mdtf14.fnal.gov (Jim Sim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: VME address modifier codes on SparcEngine 1e boards
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:08:09 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fermilab, Batavia, IL

I am using a SparcEngine 1e board to control several VME devices.  The 
CPU is running SunOS 4.1e. I am programming the devices by opening the
appropriate device files (/dev/vme24d16 and /dev/vme16d16), calling mmap 
to map to the device registers, and then peeking and poking to the appropriate 
registers.

One of the VME devices I am programming is jumper-selectable to use 
either supervisory or non-privileged short addressing.  This device responds
only when jumpered for non-privileged addressing.   However, this device 
responded on a different (non-Sun) computer, even while jumpered for 
supervisory mode addressing.

Another of the VME devices I am programming uses standard addressing, 
but has no jumper for selecting supervisory or non-privileged modes.  This 
device responds on the non-Sun computer, but not on the SparcEngine 1e.  
The documentation for this device does not indicate whether it uses 
supervisory or non-privileged addressing modes, but the fact that it 
responds on the non-Sun computer, but not on the SparcEngine 1e board,
suggests that it uses supervisory addressing mode.

Is there a way of programming the address modifier bits of the VME bus from the
SparcEngine 1e board running SunOS?  Does SunOS provide non-privileged 
access by default when mmap is called?
From: chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Chris Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:52:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Aug14.165259.13061
Organization: AM Investors, Chicago


    Some people suggest "rm -rf /tmp/".  Is it ok to remove
"/tmp/lost+found/" ?

thanks,
cj
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: jch+@cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Hardwick)
Subject: Re: the Cygnus Solaris port (my side of the story)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:57:06 GMT

zoo@cygnus.com (david d 'zoo' zuhn) writes
> [ Sigh.  I promised myself that I wouldn't respond to rfg's comments
>   in public.  Unfortunately, I've spent too much time explaining to
>   people privately, so I'd like to make a few statements in public. ]

I hereby retract (and cancel) my earlier comments that the single post
I had seen from Cygnus made them "seem like a bunch of, well, lying
scumbags".  In e-mail discussions, I had challenged David to make a
post that would erase my net.image of Cygnus, and now it's my turn to
try and erase his net.image of me :-)

Jonathan H.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid)
Subject: Using an external SCSI drive with a Sun cpu
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:33:25 GMT


Does anyone know how I can use an external SCSI device
(in this case an external Wangtek 150 meg tape drive)
with a Sun 3 or 4.. the connectors seem to be other than
the standard (25-pin) scsi connectors..


Please email to vrr@cbnewsj.att.com



Thanks very much,
Veenu

vrr@cbnewsj.att.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: add@philabs.philips.com (Aninda V. Dasgupta)
Subject: Token Ring Card for S-bus
Summary: Performance of S-bus TR card
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff, New York
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:05:41 GMT

I have been shopping around for a Token Ring card for my
SPARCstation IPX.  Most vendors have cards for the VME
buses and cost approximately $3000 (with driver).  I need
a card for the S-Bus and have found one made by Aurora Inc.
and selling for $1000.

My concern is why is the S-Bus card so cheap. Am I missing
something here ?  I mean, will I take a performance hit with
such a card because most of the protocols are perhaps implemented
in software ?  Has anyone tried the Aurora cards ?  Any other
recommendations ?

As an aside, what is the difference between the VME bus and 
the S-bus architectures ?

Thanks in advance.

Aninda


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Ph : (914) 945-6071    Fax : (914) 945-6552
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: karl@BofA.com (Karl Nicholas)
Subject: Re: How to make focus follow cursor
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 01:06:09 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.160504.19507@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
>Being a VMS weenie I am very new to Sun and
>have what I hope is a simple question. What
>do I need to do under Openlook(?) to have the
>window I place the cursor in pop to the top
>without having to click on the title bar?
>


  Try hitting the "front" key as you move the cursor
around. Probably not exactly what you want, but I think
you will like it.

Karl.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
Subject: Re: GCC, Solaris 2.0, Cygnus Support, and a lesson in corporate ethics
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 01:53:20 GMT

In <3v7m2cr.rfg@netcom.com> rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:

>OK.  I appreciate your thanks, but how about sending me a $2000 check also?
>It's the least you can do.

Well, I'll throw my $.02 in here.  This sounds like a replay of the
RMS story -- Gosling emacs, etc.  In that case, I think RMS did a most
wise thing -- undercut the competition.  But perhaps we can get Cygnus
to play nice (or demonstrate they they already are).

Anyway my observations are (as a completely uninvolved party -- I just
want my GCC):

(a)  At the time you did your port, you were not expecting nor asking
for financial reward for doing it.  To be sore now and say "gee, you
ought to pay me" is just sour grapes.

(b)  During the debate about "oh my God, Sun isn't including a C compiler,
woe is us!" and Cygnus's subsequent "we offer salvation, send money!"
reply, you never stood up to say "Hey, wait a minute, I've already DONE
this, don't pay them!".  Or perhaps you did, but it must not have been
very prominent; and your tone now indicates you didn't, your tone being
one of "I wish I'd said something".  You didn't speak up loudly enough,
so again, it's sour grapes to gripe now.  BUT:

(c)  Cygnus might (*might*) not have known the port was done when
they made the offer, and *might* genuinely have thought it would take
considerable effort to do.  If so, they *might* want to consider
refunding some of the revenue since in this scenario the port turned
out much simpler than planned.  Or if not refund, then donate it to FSF.
Not the whole thing, sicne the year of support is worth 2/3 whatever the full
price is, but some sizable fraction of the "cost of porting" seems to
have been collected for less work than planned/suggested.  I can't imagine
the actual cost of porting to be in the $300k range, even if the work
hadn't been done a priori.  As a consultant myself, with (I believe) a
considerable amount of skill and demand, I'd be embarrassed to earn that
much for this small a task.

I would hate to think that GNU work was being "sold" by ruthless greedy
mosquitos.  Nobody likes to think they were had, and this sequence of
articles, taken at face value, seems to hint that Cygnus made a real
killing for little real work.

(Hint hint, it would look very good for Cygnus to make such a refund/donation.
Bear in mind how much most large corporations value "good will" on the
balance sheets -- often staggeringly large.  Cygus would earn a lot
of good will doing this, and lose much not to.)

(d)  I'm saddened that g++ isn't included in the port -- I somehow
assumed it was an inseparable part of 2.X and would be on the CD...
boo hoo.  Of course, I assume the net will get right on this, and
it'll be available in no time (or perhaps already is?).
-- 

Andrew Burt 		   					  aburt@du.edu

      "And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped"
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3821 comp.sys.sun.wanted:1334
From: kaltef@theo-physik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Roland Kaltefleiter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: Looking for Graphicsoftware/tool/packages
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:25:16 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc
Organization: Inst.f.Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Kiel, Germany

Hi !

We are about to purchse a SPARC-Cluster with about 20 machines. 
Therefor we are looking for graphicpackages:
These programs should perform the following things:
- They get data (from our physical calculations) mostly in the
form of x/y, x/y/z Koordinates. The the program should be able to
plot these data, also several sets of this data in one single plot.
- Interactive manipulating of Graphics.
- surface & contourplots of 3-D Data.
- Generate at least postscript and hpgl outputfiles.
- easy to use. 
- Follow the rule: "What you see is what you get !"
- Work on X-Terminals !!
- IT MAY BE COMERCIAL SOFTWARE OR PD, it does not matter !

Waiting for responses, Roland

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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: halt and catch fire?
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:52:09 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>1088483  Security: 600MP shipped with halt_and_catch_fire
>
>Is somebody having a little joke, or is this a serious item?

This is a serious item.  Try doing an "nm" on "/vmunix" on a 4.1.2
Sun-4m and looking for "halt_and_catch_fire"; you'll probably find
it....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: marten@ilt.fhg.de (Lutz Marten)
Subject: National language support on SUN keyboard	
Keywords: national language keyboard
Reply-To: marten@ilt.fhg.de
Organization: FhG-ILT
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:43:35 GMT


Hello,
sorry of boring someone with this probably FAQ on this list, but my daily buisiness is DEC VMS/ULTRIX. I have to set the keyboard connected to a SUN IPX, with SusOS 4.2 and Openview (2.1), into German national language mode with "Umlaute". What should I put on my to-do list ? ThanX ! 
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3771 alt.folklore.computers:12729
From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Technical terminology...
	Re: Someone in Sun Prod mgmt please read
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:20:40 GMT
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC

I love this technology...

Well, I once had a daemon that was spawning children and killing them without
waiting, so all these zombies started filling up the process table. Now this
was in V7 so I had it fork a child that died immediately so init would clean up
all the zombies...

Then you can get into the dangers of having a file 666 mode...
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From: wmorse@mathcs.emory.edu (William Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: HELP: Sun 3/60 trouble
Keywords: Sun, monitor, os
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:31:41 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS


We have two BIG problems...

1) Our Sun OS 4.1.1 tape is bad for the Sun 3/60.  We need to install 4.1
on this machine, but we threw our old manuals away... and the 4.1.1 tape
install command is different from 4.1... Someone, please post the
commands to loadm 4.1 from tape so we can instal it..

2) Our Frame Buffer color monitor is dead... Can we tell the
machine... Sun 3/60 to use the serial port A? How... we tried
u, but no luck... (at the boot screen) Help!

Thanks!

-- 
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Emory University, Atlanta, GA 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: johnr@pacdata.com (John Reed)
Subject: HPGL previewer on SUNS??
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:53:40 GMT

I'm looking for an HPGL previewer that runs on Suns.  Anybody
know of such a beast?  If you do, please E-mail me the info.

Thanks.


JR


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