[SunRescue] Sparcstation4 aui ethernet connector.

[Creasey, Jon]

Iv'e wiggled the cables well.  If i do an ifconfig -a should it show the
interface even if it's not configured  as all it shows at the moment is lo0.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com]
Sent: 16 July 1999 09:55
To: Creasey, Jon; 'rescue at sunhelp.org'; 'lchild at plus.net.uk'
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Sparcstation4 aui ethernet connector.


On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Creasey, Jon wrote:
>	While trying to make the above talk to the rest of my house network
>i came across a problem whereby Solaris doesn't acknowledge that the
>interface eth0 (If thats what it should be on Solaris) even exists.
>Basically my question is if there is any way to persuade Solaris that the
>interface exists and let me configure it for my house network.  The
bootprom
>mentions something about forcing it to use aui with the net-aui command but
>that isn't recognised as a command by the bootprom.

  Hmm...should be "le0" under Solaris, and it should auto-switch to
whichever
interface it sees carrier on.  Is it not doing so after a good
cable-wiggling?

             -Dave McGuire

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