[mike <at> novacons.com: Hardware donation available]

Should anybody be interested in this, please contact Mike and follow up
with www <at> netbsd.org.  Thanks!

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Sorry if this is the wrong place to send this, but
core <at> netbsd.org never replied.

I have an operational Sparcserver 490 system that's looking for a
new home. It has

        2 32 MB RAM boards
        1 CPU board with LAN/KBD/Mouse interfaces
        2 1GB IPI-2 drives
        2 IPI-2 interface controllers
        1 Sun-3 SCSI host adapter

It's currently running SunOS 4.1.4 off one of the IPI drives.

I ran it one last time in October 2002 and everything was working then,

following error appears on my console

dear netbsd group

on my sparc classic i have two lan cards installed
with netbsd 1.6.1 and i become every time 
the following error, has any one any idea 
from where it comes

Jun  2 06:27:47 netsun /netbsd: le1: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:27:47 netsun /netbsd: le0: dropping chained buffer
le1: dropping chained buffer
le0: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:30:17 netsun /netbsd: le1: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:30:17 netsun /netbsd: le0: dropping chained buffer
le1: dropping chained buffer
le0: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:37:47 netsun /netbsd: le1: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:37:47 netsun /netbsd: le0: dropping chained buffer
le1: dropping chained buffer
le0: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:44:55 netsun /netbsd: le1: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:44:55 netsun /netbsd: le0: dropping chained buffer
le1: dropping chained buffer
le0: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:46:32 netsun /netbsd: le1: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 06:46:32 netsun /netbsd: le0: dropping chained buffer
le1: dropping chained buffer
le0: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 07:00:08 netsun /netbsd: le1: dropping chained buffer
Jun  2 07:00:08 netsun /netbsd: le0: dropping chained buffer
le1: dropping chained buffer

new guy with problems

Hi, my name is david, i´m 21 yaears old and i´m working with sun´s since a sort
time  hm i have a little problem with my sun sparcstaion ipx which runs
netbsd 1.6.1. I want to use ssh to connect to the ipx, but it doesn´t work.
sshd reports: could not load host key ......(and so on)
...
i tried to build one, using ssh-keygen, but it does not work 

so can you help a newbie?

big thx so far,
david

Re: new guy with problems

	Hoe did you start sshd on the sun - '/etc/rc.d/sshd start' ?
	(make sure you have sshd=yes in /etc/rc.conf)

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Schnubbi wrote:

> Hi, my name is david, i´m 21 yaears old and i´m working with sun´s since a sort
> time  hm i have a little problem with my sun sparcstaion ipx which runs
> netbsd 1.6.1. I want to use ssh to connect to the ipx, but it doesn´t work.
> sshd reports: could not load host key ......(and so on)
> ...
> i tried to build one, using ssh-keygen, but it does not work 
>
> so can you help a newbie?
>
> big thx so far,
> david
>
>
>

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DC6150 tapes

Anyone out there have a need for some DC6150 tapes?  
I have a box full of them I'd like to get rid of.  Free, just
pay for shipping (or pick them up, or meet me somewhere,
if you are in the area, Western CT).  

ELC/SLC diskless station question

We have a few diskless ELC/SLC workstations at work, all of which
died after many years from the video going out (I believe the CPU is
functional, but most of them the display is either out or so dim as to be
unusable).   I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience fixing them
or would have any interest in them if I *did* grab them and fix them?

If not, I'd think about grabbing the CPU boards and letting the rest get
trashed, and maybe running them just off the serial port with a rigged up
power supply.  They do have serial and external SCSI ports.

Pete

Re: ELC/SLC diskless station question

[ On Saturday, June 7, 2003 at 09:36:55 (-0400), phufnagel wrote: ]
> Subject: ELC/SLC diskless station question
>
> We have a few diskless ELC/SLC workstations at work, all of which
> died after many years from the video going out (I believe the CPU is
> functional, but most of them the display is either out or so dim as to be
> unusable).   I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience fixing them
> or would have any interest in them if I *did* grab them and fix them?

Almost certainly the ones that are completely dead have dried out
electrolytic capacitors.  Unfortunately it's common for such failures to
cascade to other components as well.

> If not, I'd think about grabbing the CPU boards and letting the rest get
> trashed, and maybe running them just off the serial port with a rigged up
> power supply.  They do have serial and external SCSI ports.

That would be an excellent idea!  

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Re: ELC/SLC diskless station question

> If not, I'd think about grabbing the CPU boards [from SLC/ELCs] and
> letting the rest get trashed, and maybe running them just off the
> serial port with a rigged up power supply.  They do have serial and
> external SCSI ports.

Yes, and network.  But don't just grab the CPU boards; it will help
immensely if you grab the (tiny) card the CPU board plugs into.

Read my page on decapitating SLC/ELC machines at
http://www.sunhelp.org/~mouse/ if you want more info on what I mean.

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Searching for a floppy drive

Hello Sparc-netbsd group members

Please i am seraching a floppy with/and cable for my Sparc Classic machine, 
i want need it to do little backups.

has any one to be sold a drive  ?
and send it to me !!

best regards
maurizio

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Re: ELC/SLC diskless station question

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:57:25PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> Yes, and network.  But don't just grab the CPU boards; it will help
> immensely if you grab the (tiny) card the CPU board plugs into.
> 

For what it is worth, the board in these machines is actually a
standard size.  It is a 6U card.  I had thought of getting a 6U card
cage and "clustering" a few ELC boards but I never managed to scrounge
a card cage.

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