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From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker)
Subject: Re: SUN3/50 Ethernet Problem
Message-ID: <E3s8yD.9B1.0.hotlips@GTS.Net>
Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario
References: <pd93ewgb0uh.fsf@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 08:01:25 GMT
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In article <pd93ewgb0uh.fsf@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de>,
Andreas Heitmann <aheit@planck.physik.uni-kassel.de> wrote:
|Hi,
|
|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
|cabling and it seems ok (length is 30m, T-connectors with 50 ohm
|terminators at both ends). Am I using the correct interface device?


	It might be that the internal DIP switches are set
	for the AUI port rather than the BNC connector.
	All 8 switches on S0618 should be in the ON position.


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