> On Jan 13, Alexander Gilman Carver scratched in indelible ink : > My Sun IPX was working just fine up until recently. Now it claims that > the IDPROM contents are invalid (and I can see this clearly since the > etherenet address and Host ID are all f's). > > What can I do to recover my system? > grab the Sun NVRAM FAQ : http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
You have two choices, buy a new NVRAM chip. ~$20 from your favourite exotic hardware supplier. Or, cut into your current chip and attach a battery to it. I have done the second on my ELC and it works fine :) but then again, I'm a stingy bugger and actaully spending money on my Sparc would have made me cringe. All it requires is a little skill with a soldering iron, and about $3 on a battery You can get around the flat battery temporarily, the FAQ details how to instil whatever values you want in the EEPROM, then if you do not turn the machine off that should get you by in the meantime. HTH, -- Jean-Paul Blaquière || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.aan.au || The only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distast for manual labour - dilbert