Success story. Got the VT1200, took the mouse apart, fixed it, hooked up the VRE01 flatpanel, got it tweaked and working.. Got a MMJ and a DB9 adapter from Doc Shipley, they work fine (serial console). Went to Goodwill, got a 12port (gak!) 10baseT hub (old D-Link) with a 10base2 uplink on the back. Got cables. Got home. No 10b2 Ts and terminators. Called friends. Friend had a box of them, left four Ts and two terminators on my porch this morning. Hooked everything up... mrbill@chip:~> ping -s vt1200 PING vt1200: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.123.250: icmp_seq=0. time=7. ms 64 bytes from 192.168.123.250: icmp_seq=1. time=7. ms 64 bytes from 192.168.123.250: icmp_seq=2. time=7. ms 64 bytes from 192.168.123.250: icmp_seq=3. time=7. ms 64 bytes from 192.168.123.250: icmp_seq=4. time=7. ms 64 bytes from 192.168.123.250: icmp_seq=5. time=7. ms ^C ----vt1200 PING Statistics---- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 7/7/7 mrbill@chip:~> xdpyinfo name of display: 192.168.123.250:0.0 version number: 11.0 vendor string: DECWINDOWS DigitalEquipmentCorp. vendor release number: 11 maximum request size: 16384 bytes motion buffer size: 0 bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32 image byte order: LSBFirst number of supported pixmap formats: 1 supported pixmap formats: depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 keycode range: minimum 86, maximum 251 focus: window 0x10000e, revert to None number of extensions: 1 ServerManagementExtension default screen number: 0 number of screens: 1 screen #0: dimensions: 1024x864 pixels (260x219 millimeters) resolution: 100x100 dots per inch depths (1): 1 root window id: 0x8006b depth of root window: 1 plane number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap: 0x80066 default number of colormap cells: 2 preallocated pixels: black 0, white 1 options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO largest cursor: 16x16 current input event mask: 0x0 number of visuals: 1 default visual id: 0x80065 visual: visual id: 0x80065 class: StaticGray depth: 1 plane available colormap entries: 2 red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification: 1 bits Unfortunately: mrbill@chip:~> xterm Warning: Cannot convert string "5x7" to type FontStruct xterm: unable to locate a suitable font ugh. I did NOT want to have to mess with remote fonts, considering I have ZERO documentation for this thing... I just wish it had SSH built-in. Cool and useful, regardless.. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX