I have also picked up an old SS2 and SS1+. I know of the top of my head
that the latest OBP PROM you can get for the machines is 2.9 but the SS2
will take a newer Rev of the chip. I will look up the part No. at home.
You can get these by contacting SunExpress or outsourced equivelent.
The trancevers are very common, again I will look up the part No. and
company for the one I have, the same ones used in the Sun office I use to
work in.
I should have this be Monday if I don't go into Uni on the weekend.
Regs
Chris
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Christopher Moules
UWE Bristol
Computing For Real-Time Systems, Year 3
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Joshua D. McConnaughey wrote:
> I have just acquired a government surplus SPARCStation 2 with 64MB of RAM. I have
>run Linux on Intel machines for about 3 years and have a basic knowledge of UNIX. I
>am interested in running Linux on this SPARC machine. My first problem is to obtain
>a new NVRAM chip; I have read Mark Henderson's SUN NVRAM/hostid FAQ and feel
>comfortable that I could accomplish the procedures he describes. Does anyone have
>some good advice on where to obtain the NVRAM chip and/or battery I will need? Also,
>for networking, this machine has only an AUI port; is it possible to get a 10BaseT/2
>card for these machines? Or perhaps there is an adapter from AUI to twisted-pair? I
>hope I have not asked some stupid questions here, but I am quite low on the learning
>curve with SPARC machines. I would be interested in any further advice anyone could
>pass on about how they successfully setup an old SPARCstation 2 to run Linux. My
>goal would be to use this machine as a print server (with SAMBA) or !
a small we
> b server. Thank you.
>
> Joshua McConnaughey,
> Chambersburg Area School District
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