Regarding a SPARCSTATION 1+
Hello all, I'm wondering if OpenBSD 3.8 will work on a SPARCSTATION 1+ computer. Does anyone have a toy like this running OpenBSD? And another problem: it seems to have AUI ethernet. What kind of adapter (if any) can I find in order to use it's interface (AUI) with a common 100BaseT switch? Thank you. Best regards, Gabriel George POPA
Re: Regarding a SPARCSTATION 1+
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Gabriel George POPA wrote: And another problem: it seems to have AUI ethernet. What kind of adapter (if any) can I find in order to use it's interface (AUI) The thing you are looking for is called a medium access unit (MAU), it converts the AUI into either 10base-2 or 10base-T depending on the unit you get. They may be rare beasties now as most were probably thrown out as old junk years ago. with a common 100BaseT switch? The network interface in a 1+ is 10Mbit/s only. Make sure your switch can handle that. -- Brett Lymn
Re: Regarding a SPARCSTATION 1+
Thank you very much for your advice. That's what I has looking for. Thank you again! Brett Lymn wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Gabriel George POPA wrote: And another problem: it seems to have AUI ethernet. What kind of adapter (if any) can I find in order to use it's interface (AUI) The thing you are looking for is called a medium access unit (MAU), it converts the AUI into either 10base-2 or 10base-T depending on the unit you get. They may be rare beasties now as most were probably thrown out as old junk years ago. with a common 100BaseT switch? The network interface in a 1+ is 10Mbit/s only. Make sure your switch can handle that.
Re: Regarding a SPARCSTATION 1+
On 2006/01/29 14:14, Gabriel George POPA wrote: I'm wondering if OpenBSD 3.8 will work on a SPARCSTATION 1+ computer. It's listed on sparc.html. And another problem: it seems to have AUI ethernet. What kind of adapter (if any) can I find in order to use it's interface (AUI) with a common 100BaseT switch? AUI to 10baseT adaptor - try ebay.
Re: Regarding a SPARCSTATION 1+
Gabriel George POPA wrote: Hello all, ... snip ... And another problem: it seems to have AUI ethernet. What kind of adapter (if any) can I find in order to use it's interface (AUI) with a common 100BaseT switch? http://www.dlink.ca/product.php?PID=245 I use this D-Link DE-853 on my VAXstation 4000/90 Bye, David
Re: Regarding a SPARCSTATION 1+
...on Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Gabriel George POPA wrote: I'm wondering if OpenBSD 3.8 will work on a SPARCSTATION 1+ computer. Does anyone have a toy like this running OpenBSD? Not currently, but I had an SS1+ under OpenBSD until about 3.2 (I think). Everything should work fine, but don't try to use ffs softupdates (see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates). The other standard advice is to recompile at least libssl with -mcpu=supersparc, otherwise you won't have much fun with ssh on this box (I rebuilt the whole system with that switch, but then that doesn't mean it works for anyone else). Alex.
Re: Regarding a SPARCSTATION 1+
...on Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 07:38:50PM +0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote: The other standard advice is to recompile at least libssl with -mcpu=supersparc, otherwise you won't Sorry, that's crap - the SS1+ doesn't have a supersparc CPU. Alex.
