Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM!thompson From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: re: Questions on Installing EnterNet Card. (DN3K) Message-ID: <9106171410.AA04133@pan.ssec.honeywell.com> Date: 17 Jun 91 14:10:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 47 > I've got an Apollo DN3000.... and a 3com EtherNet Card in hand. > > What is the next best step to preceed to installing it and getting > rid of that Apollo Ring Card???? > > Somebody mentioned that I might have to re-compile the kernel... > Sounds pretty ugly... Has anyone done it before ? Good God, no! First off, you'd need source to recompile the kernel, and Apollo does not provide source-code licenses to anyone short of God. Second, you don't need to do anything so ugly. These are Apollos, after all. Things to do: 1) Run the 'jumper' program (in /systest/ssr_util) to find out the necessary jumper settings for the controller. 2) Shut down the DN3000. 3) At the MD prompt '>', type in 'RE' . You should get a beep and screen flash as it resets. If not, try again. 4) Type 'EX CONFIG' 5) Tell it that you want to change the configuration, and when it gets to the controller(s), tell it that you have an ethernet controller (unit 0), not a ring controller. (Incidentally, you can just press to anything that you don't want to change.) 6) Turn off the machine, rip out the ring controller, put in the ether- net controller, hook it up, and turn it on. If you want to be a little more conservative, brin the node up in service mode, execute 'TE' to test the devices (done automagically in normal mode), and then run DEX to test the ethernet device. If you want to be a lot more conservative, start out by adding the ethernet controller whiel keeping the ring device. You'll need to say which device is primary, and you'll need to assign network numbers (in /etc/rc, the 'rtsvc' command. Leave the network that's got other stuff on it as netID 0, if possible (otherwise, you need to run around to a lot of nodes). After you're happy with 2 controllers, then rip out the ring controller, running CONFIG to let it know that you've done so. -- jt -- John Thompson Honeywell, SSEC Plymouth, MN 55441 thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com When in danger, when in doubt -- run in circles, scream and shout.