Hi, I'm having problems getting VNC to sun on my SunPCI2 card in my Ultra 5. I want VNC to utilize my built-in network interface (hme0) but it keeps looking at the loopback interface (lo0). I've tried adding the line set VNC_INTERFACE=hme0 to the VNCStartup script, but it does nothing. ...

Hi, I have a SunPCi 400Mhz card that I would like to try and use as a standalone one board PC. Has anyone tried to do this? How hard is it with regards to accessing keyboard, mouse, hard drive, network without the use of a Sun Workstation? I'm sure I could use a USB keyboard and mouse in a ...

I am trying to get some data off of some tapes that span two volumes. I put in the 2nd tape and it says wrong dump date and proceeds not to read it. The volumes seem to cross the day boundary. First volume starts at 10pm next one is 12:45am the next day. Does anyone know of a way to get ...

Hi, Is anyone using <b>512 MB</b> SODIMMs? I assume any low profile <b>PC133 3.3V non-ECC 144-pin</b> unit will work. What make is known to work? Also, is the virtual drive limit of <b>40GB</b> for SunPCi 2.3 fixed or can this be expanded. I want to use ...

Hi, everyone. I've got a confounding problem that I am utterly helpless in troubleshooting. I'm not really sure where to begin, so I'll just try to spit everything out and hope something sticks. The project I work on fields pairs of Ultra AXmp servers with dual UltraSparc IIi 440 CPUs, ...

Ok, So I know this has been covered before, but this is too good to pass up. I wanted to ADD some additional SCSI drives to my w2100z's (one drive to each, so each workstation would have 2 drives). So I called up my SUN reseller, and asked for a quote. I made a point to say that the drives ...

I have a Sunblade 1500, using Solaris 10 and a sunpci iii card. I installed win2k on the system with no problems. When I try to setup a virtual network card using the sunndis.sys driver, I get the BSOD after my reboot. Any Suggestions? Thanx ...

When I logout of an Xsession (gnome/kde/fvwm2) the system hangs (power cycle required) fairly often. This happens when using the nv or nvidia (x86_64-1.0-7667) drivers and kdm or gdm. When I'm using the nvidia driver, after the logout the nvdia splash screen stays permanently up. This ...

Hello, I am very new to "sun world". I have 2 x E450 2 x V800 2 x Ultra30 Is there any KVM switch that I can buy and have one monitor and a beyboard so that I can have a console for them. Can anyone advise. Thank you ...

Does anyone know where I can find software to burn CD's to my sun DVD RW device?

I need to upgrade BIOS file for W210Z for solving Rear Fan1 Fault problem, I downloaded the Supplemental CD2.1Image file, and burn to CD using Neno, but the CD does not work. It can boot , but cannot go to the Manu as Supplemental CD1.3 supplied by Sun. Can anyone teach me the right procedure ...

I am looking into systems for EM, thermal, structural and molecular simulation work using FEM and FDTD software. We will also be using mathematical packages. Can someone please explain the major differences (or at least point me to literature I can read for myself) between the Java w2100z ...

I recently bought it and it used to work for the owner with his desktop. I saw it myself. However, when I try to connect to my laptop, it says "Monitor is fine, but there is no signal from the computer". Can you please direct me to what I should do to make it work? Its kind of urgent ...

I am currently running an E450 server with Solaris 2.6 (I know....upgrade has not been feasible). I have an issue with one of the hard drives (36 GB) on an attached D1000 array. When I restart the server, I am not getting a login prompt at the console, but I can telnet into the system and work ...

Hi, I am investigating a problem that we have just encountered, over the weekend we had 6 x Sun 6800 crash, nothing else was affected in the Data centre, has anyone had any experiences / problems with 6800 being less tolerant of environmental factors e.g power fluctuations,our facilities team ...

I have an Ultra10-Solaris9 system and I want to try some development with openCV. What video boards can I use? An eBay search for a used SunVideo+ card (option X1089A) turned up nothing. Thanks Graeme

Hi there, I got a sun blade 1600, I can get to SC prompt but I don't know the password to get to the switch ( console ssc0/swt ). Already try Sun default user: admin password: admin it won't work. Is any body know howt to bypass that password or reset it to the default state ? Please help ! ...

Hello I'm trying to add a third SCSI drive to the W2100z. The first is a 73GB Seagate, the second is a 147GB Seagate and the third is a 147GB Fujitsu. The first (ID 1) and the second (ID 0) are on the same connector connected to the B channel. The third (ID 0) is on the A channel. When ...

Does anyone know if/where I can get a key for my L1000? Thanks, Susan

I have a couple of E250's that I am blowing away to put Solaris 9 on. The first one booted up and everything went just fine. The second one powers up, but the monitor's power light just blinks on and off, and nothing appears on the screen. I've unseated and reseated the graphics card, ...

Hello, I have just purchased an Ultra 20. I have a couple of minor issues that I would appreciate some help with. Firstly, the following warning is displayed when the system is booted: WARNING: No usable keyboard alias! The keyboard is a Sun UNIX Style Keyboard, that was purchased ...

Last month I posted several messages regarding a "rear chassis fan fault" issue I was having with these systems. After numerous warranty tickets w/Sun they sent us a boatload of fans and we upgraded to the latest bios for download. Now the same machines are having a new fan ...

Hello All, I am trying to change the hostid and ethernet address on the NVRAM on a Blade 100. However, the mkpl and mkp commands are not on in the OBP 4.0.x. Are the new NVRAMS that are ordered online from SUN preprogrammed with a hostid and ethernet address? If not, what can I do to put ...

I recently applied this update to our entrprise 3500 machine using the update-flash-30 as per the instrustions. The flash update went Ok and OBP now return correct level. However on trying to apply further patches with patch manager it errors stating that patch 103346-30 is being added as ...

Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI video card for a Netra T 1125 server?

I'm using a Sun Fire V120 and I've set the boot-file to net and cannont access the system at all now. I am unable to hyperterminal and since it's booting to the net I can't change the eeproms at all. I know the eeproms are stored on the system configuration card but I'm not sure how to ...

I want to mount (14) Netra 240's in a single cabinet if possible. I need redundant power. Looking at the power specs for the 240's, it appear they have a max draw of about <a href="mailto:3A&#64;220V." target="_blank">3A@220V.</a> The 900 & 1000 Series cabinets ...

I have sunfire v100 it's LOM (DB-9 connector)configure with Hyperterminal in windows 2000 . hyperterminal getting garbage so im unable to see is stuts and i had not configured it's network so i can not access on network please help me

I have what appears to be an empty Sun Fire Rack. It is a standard 19" rack, except for the bolts that it needs. I'm wondering if anyone happens to have the details on the bolts needed for this rack and where I would be able to acquire some from. I have tried looking through as much ...

I tried to install Windows 2003 Server on a Sun W2100z machine. But during install (mostly it is when setup says "starting windows") I recieve a bluescreen: stop: 0x0000007E (0xC000001D,0x8103EC0A,0xF792E984,0xF792E680) As I thought that this can be a driver problem I made my own ...

Hello All, I currently have 3 SunFire v250 systems running Solaris 9/04. I tried using a Belkin PRO2 series KVM with USB ports. When rebooting the systems, I would get USB Timeout Errors, and some if not most of the time the system would not come up. I would need to go into the ALOM to reset ...

Hello, When I connect keyboard in ultra 10, it works a key yes and other no. More or less sequentially. After then keyboard is broken. It has happened to me in the same machine with several keyboards. Any ask? Thank you. ...

Hello all. I am very new to Sun world. I have a brand new V880 in the box. It has come preinstalled with Solaris 8. It does not have a graphics card. I have to check the MAC address for the ethernet card. Can someone advise me how can I login without knowing the root password and how can I see ...

Does anyone know when Sun will make a dual-core upgrade kit for the Ultra-20s available? From what I understand, it shouldn't take much more than a new processor and some BIOS changes.

We are custom keyboard designers, and we manufacture a variety of Sun compatible Type 5 & 6 keyboards. I need to test the function of the Compose LED on a USB keyboard, and have a Blade 100 running Solaris 9. I can't get the Compose LED to light (even on a branded Sun keyboard), using ...

Hi, I've been given the unfortunate task of replacing linux with windows on some v20z machines. Can anyone point me in the right direction for some dos scsi drivers as I need to make a ghost image of the final os build. I have tried the LSI ones however it doesn't find the the drives. ...

I have Solaris 9 installed on a netra t1 105 which goes into half every night. I have turned off the power management and the logs in /var/adm/messages does not show anything unusual. <div class="pre"><pre>Oct 19 14:16:25 dev-sol9 pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] ...

I have a Netra 1125 running Solaris 10. It works great thanks to all the help from folks on this forum.I have a connection to the Internet and am posting my first message to the board using the Netra!I have a few more hurdles before I can call this a functioning workstation. I have local ...

Hi there. I wrote SUN, asking this question and was redirected to here... The thing is, I have gotten my hands on a SunRay 150, which I would like to use in a little system basically consisting of a mini-itx and the screen from the SunRay. I have opened the terminal and located the card ...

I jsut got 3 V40z's last week, and I loaded one with RedHat 3 and I came in on monday and the box is powered off. The SP LCD is on. And it said Main Power Off. I push the button and it does nothing. Any ideas?

One of two W2100Z dual 2.4GHz Opteron workstations we have has started to shutdown almost immediately upon booting. Under Fedora Core 4 linux this machine reports that the Crtiical Temperature has been reached of 68C. This is despite the fact that when it does run normally I see from /proc/acpi ...

Hi, unfortunately we have bad blocks (hard errors) on our harddisk (IDE). Is there any way to copy or clone the disk like dd? thanks regards heinz

Please I need your help!!!! I need to use the left keyboard of my SUN ULTRA 10. The keyboard that has 10 keys (Stop, Props, Forward, Open, Search, Repeat, Esc, Copy, Paste and Cut), don't work and is very important for me to get this keys availables... at least the "Forward key". Do ...

Hi All, I have SCSI 9 tracke reel tape drive (M4/9914) connected to a Sun Ultra 60 and we use it to read seismic data which is recorded in several format. For segy data there is no problem. We have problem for seg-a, seg-b multiplexed data which is recorded in long block format. The tape ...

I have a Netra 1125.Running Solaris 10. I was advised that the CPU board is the same as the Ultra 60.With that in mind, I purchased an audio card compatible with the Ultra 60, P/N 501-4155-03. The audio card will only fit in one spot.Unfortunately something called an alarm card P/N ...

I have a new Ultra 20 Workstation I don't have a keyboard or monitor from Sun. I have a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 Keyboard/Mouse (USB) and a MAG LT916S 19" LCD Monitor. When I plugged it all up and powered the box, I get no display at all. I tried attaching the Sun ...

Hi there, I have noticed the following error in our syslog for our V440...... Nov 4 20:36:47 sul7it10 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1c" target="_blank">pci@1c</a>,600000/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1" ...

I have a Sun Fire 250 with 1024 memory space. I want to increase this capacity with one SDRAM of 512 Mo. When I reboot the server the memory space stay at 1024. My objective is to have 2048 Mo. Is it possible with two SDRAM of 512 Mo? Thank you for your answer ...

we are considering to use Sun Solaris v10 servers to host 50 MB web site for 70,000 users. Do you have any info about: how many servers we need, what the server architecture should look like, any sizing implications etc Do you know where I can find info about this? Thanks! ...

We are making progress.The Netra 1125 found the audio card (Sun product) on a sys-unconfig boot.I can see an audio and audiocnt devices in the /dev directory now. On my Java desktop, I can see the speaker icon no longer has the red slash through it and looks like sound is coming out of it. ...