In article <199901190106.RAA29667@turing.cs.hmc.edu> jack@cs.hmc.edu (Jack Culpepper) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a Tatung Sparc 5 clone running 1.3.2.  A while ago it was happily
>booting and running fine with a 9600 baud terminal hooked up to the console.
>Yesterday I got a monitor, hooked it up, but instead of switching over the
>input-device and output-device firmware variables, held down stop-n to reset
>them and have it use the monitor.  It still boots fine (even off the network),
>but if I try and use the network once it has booted, the program using the
>network will just hang.  I have a feeling this is related to the fact that
>this motherboard has both AUI and twisted pair built into it, but Tatung
>didn't stuff the twisted pair port.  Anyway, I think when I reset the
>firmware I accidently told it to pass the unusable ethernet device to the
>OS.  The strange thing is that if I boot it off the network and NFS mount
>it's filesystems, they work fine, but I can't ping the host they were NFS
>mounted from!  Has anyone ever heard of this or know how to fix it?

Sounds like a userland configuration problem. Does ping -n ip-address work?
If it does, then you have a problem with your name server. If it does not
maybe the subnet mask is wrong?

christos