Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!lzm From: lzm@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chris McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: XStation 120 - AIXWindows vs. real X11 - Obstracle Message-ID: <6136@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 21 Nov 90 14:36:34 GMT References: <4282@awdprime.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Purdue University Lines: 23 In <4282@awdprime.UUCP> robin@sabre.austin.ibm.com (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) writes: >In article mezger@dia.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Kai Martin Mezger) writes: >> >>We are running some of those XStation 120 pizza-boxes connecting to a >>RISC/6000 320 via thin-wire ethernet. >>Did anybody on the net solve this or similar ? >>802.3 ?!?) ? >802.3 will not be supported until after the 3002 update and an EC upgrade to >the EtherNET hardware on the Xstation. The documentation I received with my Xstation software upgrade specifically states "supports IEEE 802.3 protocol". The update version is listed as 3001. To request the hardware upgrade, the documentation suggests contacting IBM-SERV or remarketer and requesting "ECA 001" for the Xstation. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chris McCoy : INTERNET: mccoy@acn.purdue.edu UNIX Systems Programmer : UUCP: ...!ecn-ee!mccoy Ag. Computer Network, Purdue Univ. : VOICE: (317) 494-8333 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=