Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires wrote:
> 
> Hello to all.
> 
> I am having problems to get SVR4 (Solaris, actually) to work OK
> under NetBSD/sparc.  All programs that do any kind of access to
> IP networking fail.  I tried Netscape, and Solaris 2.5.1 native
> telnet, ftp, ping and nslookup (thus using TCP, ICMP and UDP),
> and none of them did work.
> 
> I'm currently running -current as of the first week of February
> on this machine, and using dynamic libraries from the Solaris
> 2.5.1 CD.  Some other programs that won't do networking run fine
> (sh, for example), and I followed the instructions shown in
> compat_svr4(8) strictly.
> 
> I miss a good web browser on this machine, and that's why I'd
> like to run Netscape for Solaris on it.  Is it possible that
> those programs above listed use any of the (not-yet-)supported
> SVR4 features.  Does anybody have a clue that can help get it
> running?
> 
> [I thought of sending this to port-sparc but, beside my not
> being in that list, it's possible that somebody has a good
> SVR4 emulation for another architecture, in a way that would
> be useful for Sparc too.]
> 
> ---
>         Pappires
I'm using Netscape with SunOS emulation, and it works well, only crashes
infrequently, and is plenty speedy on an SS5. I used to use it on an
IPX, and it was quite usable there as well.

just off the topic, now that Solaris 2.6 and 7 are available
inexpensively, it would be nice if the emulation could use those
libraries.

Brad