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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!xciv.demon.co.uk!xciv.demon.co.uk!usenet 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 Organization: XCIV Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5aru85$82@xciv.demon.co.uk> References: <pd93ewgb0uh.fsf@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pantera.xciv.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xciv.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 X-URL: http://www.xciv.org/~paul/ Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.hardware:42930 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5096 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- -- Paul Civati =O= Home: paul@xciv.org =O= http://www.xciv.org/ London UK =O= Home: paul@xciv.demon.co.uk =O= Slackware is.