[SPARCbook] Tadpole drivers

[Ken Hansen]

Hugo - this info might be good to add to the FAQ, do we need to put these
inthe form of a question, or can the info just be added to the relevent
parts of
the FAQ?

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunder" <sunder at anon7.sunder.net>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: [SPARCbook] Tadpole drivers


>
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> > BTW, I was also building up my tadpole this weekend, and I
> > found a few things of note for others to keep an eye out for:
> >
> > Three of the patches listed in Hugo's FAQ individually
> > are more recent than the versions of them contained in
> > the Tadpole Package Patch bundle - they are available
> > from Tadpole directly through Hugo's links.
>
> To add to this: if anyone's using Solaris 7 (from Tadpole) on their
> machines.  Be aware that the latest Solaris 7 Reccomended Patch cluster
> (i.e. downloaded off of sunsolve.sun.com) kills the PCMCIA driver.  You'll
> get "unable to load module TS102" or such) once applied.
>
> One of the patches actually replaces the Solaris Kernel with one that
> expects a new function or structure, which the Tadpole PCMCIA driver does
> not have!
>
> Re: patches not installing: there are many reasons for patch not
> installing.  Check the error codes.  One reason they won't install is if
> you don't have the package that the patch patches installed - in which
> case this is perfectly reasonable. :)
>
> > The built-in battery usage display (on the LCD) shows about 70%
> > when the unit starts beeping and flashing the orange light, how
> > do I sync-up the Tadpole and Solaris power monitors?
>
> Strange. I'd suggest you recondition your battery as suggested elsewhere
> in this forum (i.e. deep discharge cycles)
>
> > Suggested browser - Hotjava *blows* and I am having trouble
> > getting a recent Netscape browser from their website, any
> > pointers? I plan on using the browser onthe built-in display,
> > so usabilty in 800x600 is important.
>
> Well, there is IE (puke) I wasn't able to get this piece of trash
> installed.  Neither 4.0 nor 5.  How did you download netscape?  I got my
> 128 bit secured version by using their web forms.  (I used another machine
> to download it, and then copied the gigantic file over the net interface.)
>
> > Ideal partition scheme for a 6.4 Gig HD? I am used to Linux
> > and the "one big filesystem" way of things... The laptop will
> > be used for general web access/etc. No real heavy use.
>
> Depends.  I generally start with letting Solaris auto select, and then I
> modify.  I've made my / very big - enough to accomodate the .CPR
> file. (256Mb should do very nicely.)  I've let lots of space exist on /var
> mainly because pkgadd will fail with packages that like to relocate to
> /var/spool/pkgs first.
>
> I create a fairly big /opt partition (2Gb), create /opt/local and I make a
> soft link from /usr/local to /opt/local.  This is to accomodate GNU
> (and other) packages that like to live in /usr/local.
>
> I generally add another 50-100mb to any other partitions (i.e.
> /usr/openwin, /usr) to allow for future patches, upgrades, etc.  The
> remainder goes to /export/home.
>
> > The internal 14.4K modem works great (very reasonable for a
> > local terminal session), how do I configure a PCMCIA modem?
> > A pointer to a doc would be great!
>
> Just guessing, but admintool might work wonders once you figure out the
> device name.
>
> > How is the sound support - haven't really gotten to that yet?
>
> Weak and shitty. :)  I'd suggest you use headphones.
>
> > Pointers to fun programs/uses for these machines would be
> > appreciated, as I only got this laptop as a plaything, but I want
> > to set up some cool stuff for dinking-around...
>
> See sunhelp.org for pointers to FAQ's, and sunfreeware.com for pre-built
> packages.  (You first gzip -d them, if they're tars, you also untar them,
> then use pkgadd -d . from the same directory you've extracted them if
> they're tars, or pkgadd -d filename.pkg if they're an individual file.)
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