15 May
2004
15 May
'04
12:23 p.m.
On Sat, 15 May 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
We have a usable RA81 drive for the PDP 11/84 now
(whoo!) and stuck
Ultrix (3.1.1) on there earlier.
3.1.1? That sounds like my release, since
DEC's ended with
V3.1.
The machine has a DELUA Ethernet board in it - not the
DEUNA or DEQNA
boards mentioned in any of the docs that we have.
Cool!
Anyone know if the board is supported with that
release of Ultrix? If
so, presumably a kernel rebuild is needed to enable support as it won't
be built into the installed kernel?
DELUA is DEUNA, as far as the driver is
concerned. Just set it
up for de0 (DEUNA) support, rather than qe0 (DEQNA/DELQA.)
We added in the optional TCP/IP code during system
install, but info on
the 'net as to how to get networking up and running on these machines
seems very thin on the ground. I found the 'netsetup' script but of
course that still doesn't give us an actual device in /dev for the
board.
Contact me offlist for help- I maintain Ultrix-11, so should
probably know :)
--f