Colleagues
Here is the summary I promised. It follows the original message below.
I wonder if any of you have successfully (or not) installed a Sun Blade
2000 as a spectrometer host for an Inova system. Varian's web site says
this platform is completely supported by VNMR6.1C. However, we cannot get
it to work. We have Solaris 9 and VNMR6.1C installed and all ofthe latest
patches. When we run setacq we do not get communication with the MSR
board. We can ping, telnet, etc the world off of both ethernet boards
(eri0 and ce0). However with either board as the spectrometer LAN, we can
ping wormhole, but we cannot ping inova nor inovaauto. setacq keeps
creating hostname.le0 even though le0 and le1 do not exist. Varian says it
should work.
Can anyone help with this problem?
I will post a summary.
Thanks.
Joseph Vaughn
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Summary
Actually, I had already tried what most of you suggested. Namely, I had
edited setacq so that driver 1="eri0" and driver2='ce0". That did not work
so I posted my request. I did not include that info, because I did not
want to discourage anyone from responding. I was hoping I had made some
careless oversight. The simple solution is described in Rolf Kyburz's
latest VNMRNEWS. Even so, this did not work for me. I finally just
reinstalled Solaris 9 (sans patches per Christine Hofstetter's
recommendation) and VNMR6.1C and patch 203. Patch 203 includes a new
version of setacq with driver1="eri0" defined. However, there is no ce0.
So, I edited setacq to included driver2="ce0". This worked perfectly and
was a lot faster than futzing with it. There was another suggestion, which
I am including below. It did not work for me. Evidently, something in
the first software installataion got misset and would not be corrected.
* The other suggestion:
This has happened to me in the past when I had inadvertently disabled tftp
by either not running S76inetsvc or had in.tftpd commented out of inetd.conf
Is there any possibility that the MSR board couldn't get its self-esteem
because of a tftp inavailability? (And wouldn't it be eri0 and eri1?)
Just trying.
Thanks for all of your responses!
Joseph Vaughn
Dr. Joseph Vaughn
Associate Director, NMR Facility
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390
Phone 850-644-3334
Fax 850-644-8281
email vaughn_at_chem.chem.fsu.edu
http://www.chem.fsu.edu/faculty/vaughn.htm
Received on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 15:30:48 MST