On February 8, Rick Copeland wrote:
> I have a Sun Sparc 330,  I am trying to netboot (diskless).  The color frame
> buffer does not work or work with my color monitor and so I cannot get the
> ethernet address (for example: 8:0:20:7:c5:c7 this is the example from
> diskless(8)) that usually shows when the computer first comes up.  Is there
> another way to get the ethernet address from the serial port in diagnostics
> mode?

  You'll get the same info on a serial console as you would from a
graphical console.  Switch into diag mode and power up the
machine...eventually the diags will complete, and you'll see the
regular power-up banner that lists the ROM rev, the IDPROM sysid, and
the MAC address.

  You should be able to abort the diagnostics by hitting <esc> after
they start up...if I recall correctly, this works on the 4/400, I'm
not sure about the 4/300...but it's worth a try.


                         -Dave McGuire
                          mcguire@neurotica.com