TCP/IP setup under Ultrix on an 11/84...

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Sat May 15 16:23:26 2004

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
Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 16:23:26 BST