Subject: Re: General sun4m problems (Re: Disk formatting and labelling under NetBSD/sparc?)
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Alan Perry <Alan.Perry@Eng.Sun.COM>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/17/1996 19:09:15
> From Alan.Perry@Eng Wed Apr 17 18:53:03 1996

> I am experiencing a couple of problems getting data onto the Classic that
> I am running NetBSD on.  Maybe someone else has seen the same problem.
> 
> Note that I am running a build from the end of January, not the official
> 1.0 sun4m release, but these problems make it hard to load the latest stuff
> onto the machine.
> 
> Problem 1.
> I cannot get the network to work on the TPE connection.  OBP says the network
> is hooked up.  SunOS 4.x uses it fine.  NetBSD says the network is not 
> connected.  Someone suggested specifying "link0 link1" to ifconfig, but this
> did not work.  The only thing that I have not tried is using the AUI/sound
> box interface.  I really would like to use the TPE connection, though.

Well, I tried using the AUI via sound box connector Ethernet and it works.
My machine is now on my home network and I can FTP new source (like the
real 4m 1.0) to it and print on my NeXT from it.
 
alan

P.S.  I actually mailed this note on Monday and it just appeared on the list
today.