Re: Wanted- ExOS 201 Ethernet Controller Software Manual

[Tom HARROLD]

Hi Declan,

The following is my boot-up of the system that I work on:

 

STS Prom Monitor, M68CPU (Non-MMU) version 2.5
Preparing to boot - press ESC to abort ...
Standby
REGULUS 4.2B 07/04/85 #11482 No MMU
Copyright Alcyon Corp.
@(#) Series 6000 version of Sat Sep 15 12:20 1990
initializing printer driver ... done.
initializing mag-tape driver(ctcm) ... done.
initializing tester driver ... done.
initializing phi driver ... done.
initializing dma driver ... done.
sys/non/wst 297k/1751k/201
initializing omti driver ... done.17
REGULUS
Copyright Alcyon Corp.
Login: root
password:
*********************************************************************
***  Diagnostic Release 4.2.1 Installed on  Sat Feb 25 10:00:14 1989 ***
*********************************************************************
***  Release 4.1.10 Installed on  Tue Feb 28 06:13:51 1989   ***
***  Use news(cmd) to review release notes  ***
root.1> uname -a
System name: REGULUS
Node name: sbe.0001
Operating system release: 07/04/85
Operating system version: 4.2B
Series 6000 version of Sat Sep 15 12:20 1990
System does not have a Memory Management Unit.
Root device: 10 /dev/win /dev/rootfs
root.2> ps -e
  PID TTY       TIME COMMAND
    1 ?         0:00 init
   17 ?         0:00 /etc/update
   21 tty0      0:02 #sh
   25 tty0      0:02 ps -e
   22 ?         0:00 /etc/init c 0
   23 ?         0:00 /etc/init d 0
root.3> dir
Directory /
[bin]           [net2.0]        rlsnote.nr    ! ;  {installtape}   {reguluse}
[dev]           [net]           {Makebin}       {regulus1}      {regulus}
[doc]           [sbe]           {initrg}        {regulus2}      {tinstall}
[etc]           [tmp]           {installcart}   {regulus3}      {vbu2}
[lib]           [u]             {installdisk}   {regulusa}
[mnt]           [usr]           {installnet}    {regulusb}
root.4>

 

As you can see the above directory listing of the root shows 2 directories of network stuff. It seem to me I should run the installnet.  On the very little information that I have says I should configure the board by selecting the jumpers for it's interrupt vector and address select. Now my question is, how do I find out what interrupt vector can I use? Is there a UNIX command or program that scans the system and spit-out a report on what address and a interrupts are being use?

 

Thank you for the little info on uname and pe commands.

 

I also learn about this EXOS 201 NIC board is an option, so we were lucky to have them included into each systems but no Software manual. This board was made by Excelan Inc. which is out of business, even the STS-6000 tester where this board goes into it.

 

I like more help, so far so good little steps here and there is helping me to find out more of things of this stuff.

Thanks....

Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:24:20PM -0800, Tom HARROLD enlightened us
thusly
> Absolutely! It is an UNIX based system. It's nice for a change. The
> grand daddy of all OS I like to say. ;-) Oh by the way, in my last
> message I wrote, one of the commands was incorrect. Not "apr", it
> should be "arp".
>
> Recently, I have been reading the on-line "man" pages and found
> information on most of the commands but except for "ftpd" and a few
> others at this time I can't think of them to mention them. Anyways, I
> need some guide to show me how to setup and configure to make it work.
> Like connecting to another system. So, I can transfer and backup the
> system via Ethernet network.
>
> Thanks Declan, for your reply... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

ftpd should be an ftp daemon, that is a p! rogram you run to allow others
to ftp into your box. The reason you are not finding man pages is that
the 'original' ftpd has fallen into disuse (Part of the inetutils
package I _think_) but there are piles of them (ncftpd, wu-ftpd). Look
for either a directory called .*ftp or .*ftpd in /root, or much more
likely, some file in /etc.

most programs should respond to --help with a terse list of
options. Some interesting tricks:

uname -a should give you system information. I get
Linux genius.chateau.dec 2.4.22 #2 Mon Dec 8 17:54:37 GMT 2003 i686
unknown

That is
Linux system;
genius.chateau.dec is the fully qualified name
2.4.22 is kernel version
Date, time
i686= processor type, Unknown means it didn't cop an Athlon :-/.

What does yours say?

The config files should be in /etc/ or the user's directory (conceivably
a few in other places) and the rest depends on your flavour of unix.

There are s! ome unix users here. Some guys (Like Jaap) run it and we can
probably sort you out.

If it boots, try 'ps -e' which will tell us what was started on bootup,
and what you are trying to do. We can all have a laugh at you then, but
we might also be able to help :).

--

With best Regards,


Declan Moriarty.
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