On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:20:45PM -0700, Keith Morse wrote: >Besides "to hell" do any of the list members have any recommendations for >helping to resolve SCO questions? I'm working with an church that have >moved from a SCO openserver 5.0 that provided dumb terminal access for >Word Perfect to a windows based network. The box itself is relatively new >and appears to have a 3com nic in it, but the scoadmin refuses to >configure it. Any references, pointers, answers would be greatly >appreciated.
You have to be a bit more specific than that. What's the output of the ``uname -X'' command? This will give the full version number. The current version is 3.2v5.0.6. The program to configure NICs is ``netconfig''. OpenServer is fairly picky about what it will support. I've found that it pays to stick to things like the later 3C509 ISA cards with Plug-n-Pray turned off (early versions of the firmware on these wouldn't stay turned off). Some of the SMC 10/100 PCI cards cards work well as do older SMC/Western Digital 3000 series. ISA NE2000 clones can be a problem, and netconfig won't let you set them at any of the higher IRQs. I spent a good part of an afternoon recently going through my parts shelves before I found a NIC that would work properly with 3.2v5.0.5, finally getting it to work with the 3c509. Unless you really want to run OpenServer, I would suggest loading Linux on the box. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The pinnacle of open systems is: when moving from vendor to vendor, the design flaws stay the same. _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
