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From: cornutt@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (David Cornutt)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Sun Workstation problems
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.215208.4992@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Nov 90 21:52:08 GMT
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epl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Edward Peter Lennon) writes:

>Hello netters,
> [problem with a Sun-2 which won't work with the following...]
>We used a 3Com corporation transciever
>model 3c100 (class2)for the "sun 2's".

I'm not sure if this is your problem, but I've seen Solbourne
Series-4 machines which wouldn't work with a DEC DELNI.  Seems
that they look for the transceiver drawing power from the host,
and if the transceiver is a self-powered device like a DELNI,
it refuses to believe that it is connected to anything.  On the
Solbourne, you can move a jumper on the CPU board to fix this.
Don't know about a Sun-2, unfortunately.

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