[SunRescue] Old Skool Sparc 2 with SunOS 4.1.1

[Stou Sandalski]

Hey, I did look at the environment thing before... and now when I look at
it, it doesn't have anything that even remotely suggests that it can control
this... I thought it would be at the OS level... I don't even understand
what this eeprom is... is that the Sparc equivalent of CMOS? there is one
variable called diag-device = net  and its set to true... I am not sure what
it does...

If I don't figure something out by the time the sun comes up... over here...
I will wait until I find a transceiver to buy... I saw a few on e-bay but
the autcions end in like 3 days or something hehehe

thanx for your time paul

Stou

----- Original Message -----
From: "paul pries" <paul.pries at sonera.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Old Skool Sparc 2 with SunOS 4.1.1


> OK, if I recall everything correctly, just
> plugging in an
> ordinary tranceiver in the back of the ss2 would
> do the trick.
>
> To enter the eeprom, follow these steps:
> - turn on the power
>
> - when the boot starts, press the "stop" and "a"
> keys (L1 a).
>
> - at the ">" prompt, type "n" for new command
> mode.
>   ( if the prompt anything else than ">" you
> probably are in
>   the new mode already)
>
> - type "printenv". This will show some variables
> with their settings.
>   locate the one that is named something like
> "carrier test" (I'm
>   taking this from memory and don't know the exact
> variable name...)
>
> - type "setenv <variable name> off"
>
> - type reboot to reboot the box.
>
> Done. :)
>
> /Paul.