Re: New PCI QFE 501-5406 card in Ultra 30, for Don and others! :-)

Hi DoN!

O.K. That is likely to be one of the Creator series or perhaps
an Elite-3D. Does it have a small DIN connector down close to the tab
of the card bracket? (Not that this is important for what we are
dealing with.)

Yes, a circular jack next to the adapter connector.

So -- perhaps it should have hostname.qfe0 and hostname.qfe1 in
place of the hme versions? Remember that I'm using the qfe on an
OpenBSD system, which calls them *all* "hme?".

DoN! :-O

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

That was it!!!

I now have a hostname.qfe0 and hostname.qfe1. My D-Link router
is on
the qfe0 and the Linux computer is on the qfe1.

It is after 2:00 AM Saturday morning, and I am so tired I can't
see
straight! I have to get to bed...

But, the Linux sendmail sends to the Sun sendmail, and the Sun
sendmail is getting the Linux AND the Internet mail, and putting it in
my
"mutt" mailbox! :-D

The reason I have to still manually intervene to send this is the
Sun
is not playing the role of a router, even though both network ports
are in
use.

On either system, I can ping the Linux network port and both of
the
Sun network ports (currently in use, qfe0 and qfe1). But, I can't
ping
the D-Link router or any Internet address. Even on the Sun, I can't
ping
Internet addresses, even though the fetchmail on the Sun is
communicating
and has transferred all of my email to the Sun's hard drive. And,
every
five minutes, if there's another email, it's here again!

I can't use Netscape on the Sun or Firefox or any Internet
connections on the Linux system.

I have defaults/gateways set up on both systems...

Here's the Linux:

<<>>
[root@barrycon ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:6F:D8:01
inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:
255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fe6f:d801/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:358600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:192742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:507185982 (483.6 MiB) TX bytes:16459497 (15.6 MiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x6000

[root@barrycon ~]# netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window
irtt Iface
192.168.224.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 vmnet8
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
172.16.40.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 vmnet1
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
default canaan-2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0
<<>>

And here's the Sun:

<<>>
bash-2.03# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index
1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
qfe0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
index 2
inet 192.168.0.201 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 8:0:20:8f:d3:67
qfe1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
index 3
inet 192.168.2.2 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
ether 8:0:20:8f:d3:67
bash-2.03# netstat -nr

Routing Table: IPv4
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
192.168.0.0 192.168.0.201 U 1 1 qfe0
192.168.2.0 192.168.2.2 U 1 1 qfe1
224.0.0.0 192.168.0.201 U 1 0 qfe0
default 192.168.0.1 UG 1 8
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 2929 lo0
<<>>

(And, it's not typed, this time! I rlogin'd to the Sun, and cut
and
pasted it into my vi!) :-) :-) :-)

At this moment, my USB backup to the SimpleTech drive (and this
one
is the one that is working, the Tuesday morning Western Digital is
what
isn't working) is running. And, I'm getting email! I am getting
email
from the Linux system, and I'm getting email from the Internet, so
fetchmail on the Sun is back and doing wonderful for me!!!

But, I can't send email or connect to Usenet yet from the Linux
system. I will temporary change the Linux networking to DHCP and
connect
it to the D-Link router to send this to you, and then put it back!

I will hopefully have a chance, tomorrow (Saturday) -- though I
have
a very busy day -- to figure out what I'm missing. But, I sure do
like
getting my Linux email again!

Before, there was one file, it may have been gateways, that I had
to
have in place, or else something (similar to this, if I recall) didn't
work right. And, it was DIFFERENT than what I would have thought
should
have been used, by reading the Solaris System Admin Manual 3,
regarding
networking.

But, I've experimented with gateways and defaultrouter and this
isn't working, yet.

But, I will go to bed incredibly happy that I am SO MUCH CLOSER
than
I've been since the lightning strike! :-D

[ ... lots of problems with CD-ROM drive (or is it really the
SCSI DVD-ROM which is in some Ultra-60 machines? ]

I'm not sure. The drawer says "compact disc" on it. However,
last
night, when I tried to boot from the cdrom, I am 95% sure it had
"scsi" in
what output on the monitor!

Anyway -- is vold running? Try:

ps -ae | grep 'vold'

If so, it is trying to mount the CD-ROM where it thinks it
belongs (and you need to have the proper mount point present). To turn
to off, try:

sh /etc/init.d/volmgt stop

and once that is done, edit the /etc/vfstab file to add the line:

======================================================================
/dev/sr0 /dev/rsr0 /cdrom hsfs - no ro
======================================================================

to the file, then make sure to create the directory /cdrom.

Then (as long as "vold" is not running you can mount the CD
using "mount /cdrom" and get rid of it using "umount /cdrom".

vold does NOT seem to be running.

At the moment, the drawer comes back out whether I have a CD in
it or
not. And, even if I put a CD in it, and pay attention to exactly the
"orientation" of the label and text on the CD, the drawer goes in, and
there is a delay of a few seconds, and the drawer opens again. The
orientation is EXACTLY the same. (And, I've tried this several times,
now.)

It *may* be whatever the "nub" that spins should be called is not
"spinning up", and that could be why it is ejecting/opening the
drawer...
again, whether there is a CD or not!

But, I am just ignoring this for the moment! I am finally
getting
closer again! :-D

Type to you some time! :-)

Barry
.

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