[SunRescue] Sun 3/160 trouble

[Peter Wargo]

on 2/22/01 7:36 PM, Joshua D. Boyd at jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu wrote:

> I recently acquired a Sun 3/160.  I wanted a machine to run NeWS on.
> Anyway, with the diag/norm switch set to diag, I can get the machine to
 [...]
> transceiver just incompatible? A seperate ethernet board?  The boot log is
> below.  I don't have a moniter yet, so I'm booting to the serial port.

Onboard Enet has a jumper to go between AUI/10B2 connection, if memory
serves me.

You can run NeWs on early sparcs, too... I know it was in 4.0.3, I think it
was still around in 4.1.4 - which means you could do it on an SS5, 10, or
20.

> Oh, one more thing.  I've found instructions for converting a type3
> keyboard to work on a machine that expects the type4.  Can I reverse the
> procedure to use a type4 or type5 keyboard on this machine instead of the
> type3?  

There is a type 4 to type 3 adapter out there, I dunno if a type 5 would
work.
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