topic Re: AS2100 ewa0 config in Operating System - OpenVMS

AS2100 ewa0 config

jsmith8242 — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:43:10 GMT

All,
My apologies up front; I am a novice in charge of a small system.
I've recently resurrected an AlphaServer 2100 and installed OVMS 7.3-1 and TCP/IP Services 5.3 and the following license:
Net-App-Sup-200
OpenVMS-Alpha
-Alpha-ADL
-Alpha-User
The NIC is an integral component of the I/O card. The green light is lit next to the DB-15 plug (8 over 7), but not next to the RJ45. I have a DEC cable BNE4E-02 with a 10Base2 Transceiver (to thin coax); however, I would prefer to use cat-5 and the RJ45 plug.
Additionally, there is only one instance of EWA in show device, compared to my alpha server 300 that has 0-4 instances.
If anyone can help, please let me know how I can use the RJ45 plug on the NIC and the steps to load/enable/config the NIC.

Thanks,
Jeff

Re: AS2100 ewa0 config

Ian Miller. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:59:25 GMT

at the console prompt >>>
use the command
SHOW EWA0_MODE
It may say the device is in AUI mode. To change enter the commands

SET EWA0_MODE twisted-pair
INIT

at the console prompt.

Re: AS2100 ewa0 config

Steven Schweda — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:16:49 GMT

I know nothing about this system, but in
console mode (halted) you could try things
like:

>>>show ewa0*

If there's an "ewa0_mode" (set wrong), you
could try:

>>>set ewa0_mode

A bad or missing setting in that command
should cause it to list the possibilities.
One of them may look obviously right.

On _very_ old hardware, there could be a
physical jumper block to switch modes, but I
wouldn't bet on 1994 being old enough for
that.

There could be some useful info hidden under:

http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/archive/2100/

Re: AS2100 ewa0 config

jsmith8242 — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:23:14 GMT

Ian,
Thank you. It is now setup for twisted pair.
Can you give me the general steps to setup the network. I did it several years ago for OVMS 6.2 (UCX) and it is completely different. It will have an ip address for access by terminal programs (WRQ Reflections) and telnet.
Thanks,
Jeff

Re: AS2100 ewa0 config

Duncan Morris — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:40:21 GMT

Jeff,

the starting point for setting up your network ought to be the manuals!

However, as you have done it in the UCX days, you should find no great problem with

@SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$CONFIG

Duncan

Re: AS2100 ewa0 config

jsmith8242 — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:02:12 GMT

Thank you all!
The dinosaur is now connected!
Best regards,
Jeff