Recent content by SteveB42

Thanks, I'll give that a go this morning and I'll let you know the results. :-)

Hi, any suggestions would be appreciated. Here is what I have done so far... oh, and I have very limited spare parts, of course. Was told the Sparc 20 was hung, it was, the display was there, but stupid me didn't write down the error message. It looked as if CDE had bombed, because the...

Hi, any suggestions would be appreciated. Here is what I have done so far... Was told the Sparc 20 was hung, it was, the display was there, but stupid me didn't write down the error message. It looked as if CDE had bombed, because the background screen (white background, large black font) was...

Does anyone know what the difference is (voltage levels and so forth) between 422 comm port and 422 tty? Thanks for any suggestions! :-)

Hi there everbody! Does anyone know where I can find a 10/100 BaseT driver for AIX 3.2.5? I can't upgrade the OS because of development reasons, but I want to upgrade from the 10Base2 thin net adapters already installed. If you happen to know the driver name (i.e. devices.mca.8fxx) that...

Is there a bug in 4.1.5 or is there a place to set the environment variable concerning what class of network your machine is on? Or could this be particular to the IBM R50 (powerPC) platform? Thanks again!!! :-D

Sector, Already attempted hardcoding the rc.net this morning and it still didn't work. What is very strange about all of this is that all of our other boxes that either run 4.3.3 or 3.2.5 do not exhibit this behavior! The other boxes also use class C ip addresses mixed with class B ... so...

Sector, Thanks for the tip(s)... it appeared to work, but when I tried to change the gateway for en1 it failed stating network unreachable (because the netmask reverted to 255.255.255.0)! ARRRGHHHH! As to your query about my ip address, it is 200.0.124.250 ... is that why the OS thinks I...

Did an ifconfig en1 and it returns a netmask of 0xffffff00 (e.g. 255.255.255.0) so the ifconfig en1 netmask doesn't change it permenantly... sigh.

Mr Morsing, Thank you for your suggestion as well!! Steve :-D

Sector, The odmget returns 255.255.255.0 as expected. I am searching in etc, but still haven't found anything ... IBM hardware folks are coming out to change the dead battery... but I have serious doubts that is the root cause. Even with a dead battery, I should be able to write to the ODM...

Thank you Mr Morsing! But it didn't work! tried ifconfig en1 netmask 255.255.0.0 and it acted like it worked (no error or complaint)... but went into smit tcpip and lo and behold the netmask is still 255.255.255.0! Frustrated but having fun, Steve :-)

Got a chance to reboot and the netmask went back to 255.255.255.0! $#^@$^@%&@!!! Anyway, I was wondering if a dead battery (date/time resets if server is completely powered off) may have something to do with this ... or could it be permission on some obscure file not allowing a "real&quot...

Was able to change the netmask in the database with the -P option ... and now it actually shows the mask I want, but isn't really there (certainly could cause confusion) until I cycle tcpip (or reboot)... which I can't do right now. Definetly a bug in 4.1.5 that doesn't exist in 4.3.3 (or even...

Tried it, like I thought it just started the daemons, and since they are already running had no effect ... later today I'll kick some folks off and actually stop tcpip, change the netmask and then restart it ... and see if it works... thanks for the suggestion. :-)