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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Help wanted with Ungermann-Bass cards and PC-NFS
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Date: 23 Oct 89 21:27:09 GMT
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In article <1989Oct19.194253.27054@hellgate.utah.edu> wheeler@cs.utah.edu (Bob Wheeler) writes:
>
>We have some IBM PS/2 PCs and we recently purchased some Ungermann Bass 
>networking cards to run Sun's PC-NFS. (We got the Ungermann-Bass cards
>because we thought that someday we would run AIX on the machines.)
>Anyway, the NFS manual says that the cards will work but after trying
>to get them to go we called Sun and they said that the manual was wrong
>and the cards are not supported.

The manual is not wrong, Ungermann-Bass is! Or at least that's my
opinion, given that they label all of their dumb boards "NIC" even
though they're software-incompatible. We wrote, and ship, a driver for
the only NIC that existed at that time: the PC bus version. I wish
people would use proper model numbers, like (for example) 3Com does.

>                                    They did say that they have heard of
>people using them and they told us that there is a way to do it but they
>didn't know how.

We had reports (which now appear to be incorrect) that someone had written
a public-domain Packet Driver for the PS2/NIC, and that they had
used the PC-NFS Packet Driver interface code I posted to Clarkson.
I never received confirmation of this.  (If anyone in sales/telemarketing
mentioned this, they are/were out of line....)

>                    Does anyone know how to make these things work? It 
>looks like we are missing a configuration file and possibly a driver.

Given a Packet Driver for the card, you can get up and running with
PC-NFS. NCSA Telnet does include a (non-packet) driver, and there's
source code in the distribution, so it shouldn't be a big task. I don't
have time right now, unfortunately...

>The cards are Ungermann-Bass NIC cards.

 Yeah. Right. Does anyone from U-B read this group?

Geoff
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