Thick Ethernet/Sun networking problems

I missed the original thread. The subject line didnt mention anything about printers, so i didnt read em ;) So, it would help me if you briefly restated the exact problem. I'm assuming you have a calcomp plotter (but i dont know which one), that it has a M971 ethernet card, and that you dont know what the IP address is set to. And that you insist on using the ethernet port, versis connecting it via parallel port to a unix server. Well, one way of solving this problem is to reset the M971 card back to factory defaults, and then setting the IP address. Unfortunately I dont have the manuals, but if you have the manuals you should be able to look some of this up. There is a reset jumper on the ethernet card, so you power down the printer, remove the card, install the jumper, power it up, then repeat to remove the jumper (assuming i recall the procedure correctly). If the IP is reset back to 0.0.0.0, then the second step is to use the reverse-ARP procedure to set the IP address. And i really dont recall that procedure off the top of my head, but you need the LAN address from the M971 card, which you then add to the ARP tables on a unix host on the local subnet, etc, etc... There is a certain pattern to the indicator lights on the M971 that tells you that it is waiting to recieve the RARP, if you can find that extremely thin M971 manual. Once you get the IP set via RARP method, telnet to the printer and use the menu to set it permanently. This would be the method for a Calcomp DrawingMaster 800 with M971 ethernet card installed. -Lawrence LeMay