AMMRLers,
Here's one more since I'm on a roll (at least for the Varian camp). I
asked about this a year ago but didn't get any replies.
We've installed several new SunBlade100 workstations since the price is so
good and some of our SparcStations were feeling really slow. One of the
hard things to swallow was paying ~$500 for an ethernet card to interface
our $700 - $800 workstations to our spectrometers, especially on a tight
budget. On this last one, I thought I'd try installing a standard PCI
ethernet card (Linksys LNE100TX, $20) in one to see if it works before
shelling out another $500. There is a free driver that can be downloaded
from
http://garrett.damore.org/software/ethernet/support.shtml
that was supposed to work so I figured at most I'd be out $20.
Well, it works just fine. It's been up (a Gemini 2000 system running off
the SunBlade with Solaris8 and VNMR6.1C) for over a month now with no
problems. After downloading the afe driver from the website above and
installing according to the instructions provided, I edited the setacq
script to utilize the afe driver for the console connection rather than the
le or hme drivers. So I wound up with eri0 to the network and afe0 to the
console. This is the tricky part as there are quite a few permutations.
After I figured out which driver the setacq script was going to try to use
(I think it was le1 in my case) I just used sed to swap in afe0 for le1 in
the script and ran it.
Just thought someone might like to know.
John T.
Tomaszewski, John
NMR Facility Coordinator
Indiana University
800 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7102
(812) 855-4478
Received on Fri Aug 09 2002 - 11:35:42 MST