I did not pick up an Xterm last night, however, I am working with xterms on a daily basis. I know that the NCD licensing is not attractive on an individual basis :-( We have found that the Exploras tend to work better with at least 16MB of RAM in them and we are currently looking at getting Kingston KVR4X32-60ET/16 for them (waiting for an order to come in to complete some additional testing).
Nathan Conrad wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:41:27PM -0400, Chris Hedemark wrote: > > I wanted to kick off a thread for the people who picked up some X > > Terminals tonight. As a courtesy for people who want to filter these > > threads out, I suggest we keep "(XTERM)" in the subject header for easy > > filtering. > > > > Firstly, to whoever donated these to the LUG, thank you! This should be > > great fun to play with. The "naked" terminal was rejected by a few > > people so I decided it would be great fun to try and get that one into a > > more interesting chassis (I'm thinking lunchbox, but the system board > > might be a tad too big). > > > > So let's keep each other informed on what we learn about these things so > > that they will be useful for everyone else, and since I know Google is > > crawling our list archives we will hopefully be able to kick back some > > good info beyond our smaller circle. > > > > First of all, I've been having better luck with the NC200 than the > Explora. The company that makes these boxes (NCD) seems to like to > sell their software for money. I found a set of patch files which > allowed the NC200 to boot. I put these in the /usr/tekxp2/boot > directory, and it booted. It brought up a dialog box that allowed me > to telnet places and to run xdmcp. The interface seemed a bit too > green, as if there was a problem with the video card. This was set up > using dhcpd and tftp on my main computer (Max). It was able to connect > to UNC sites (via telnet). > > The Explora is a bit of a troublemaker. It requires a file named > Xncdxpl to boot. My box had an IP address in the following netblock > (whois info): > > University of Texas System Office of Telecommunication Services > (NETBLK-THENET-CIDR-3) THENET-CIDR-3 > 204.158.0.0 - 204.158.255.255 > Providence Memorial Hospital (NETBLK-PROVIDENCE-4) PROVIDENCE-4 > 204.158.248.0 - 204.158.255.255 > > I could not find a copy of the Explora boot file, and cannot get the > Explora to do anything usefull (yet). > > I'll keep you informed as I learn more. > > -Nathan > > > Keywords: NCD, Network Computing Devices, Xplora, Explora(XA), Linux, > > OpenBSD > > -- > Nathan J. Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (919) 929-6413 > 101 Cynthia Drive / Chapel Hill, NC 27514-6614 > GPG: F4FC 7E25 9308 ECE1 735C 0798 CE86 DA45 9170 3112 > https://attaque.dhs.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919) 515-3609 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
