Ethernet card/driver for Mac IIfx & AUX 2.0

[E Drew Einhorn ADV.SCI.Inc]

In article <1990Sep14.230450.7039 at ni.umd.edu> steveg at ni.umd.edu (Steve Green) writes:
>In article <21926 at mvis1.com> pcaloca at synoptics.COM (Paul Caloca) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know of a driver for a Kinetics EtherPort II that AUX will
>>work with? Are there any other ethernet cards and drivers that AUX
>>can recognize? The friendly Apple Technical AnswerLine folks say only
>>the Apple Ethernet card will operate with AUX 2.0 and they are expensive
>>and in short supply. 
>

Jim Jagielski (jim at jag2.gsfc.nasa.gov) has made A/UX 1.1 drivers for
the EtherPort II available for anon ftp on his machine.  Jim says the
driver works fine with A/UX 2.0.  He had to make only a minor
adjustment to the installation script.  He warns that the driver only
supports TCP/IP.

Kinetics was bought out an broken into pieces scattered around the
country.  Spent a frustrating day calling wrong numbers and being
referred to other wrong numbers.  Novell (408/473-8700) is continuing
to manufacture and sell newer versions of the EtherPort II.  They also
provide Tech Support for the older versions.  They can send you a
current MacOS driver you can use to determine whether your card is
broken or you are having problems with the AUX install.  Hardware
documentation for the older cards is out of print, but you can talk to
someone in Tech Support who will look things up for you.  Don't mention
A/UX until you actually get to talk to a Tech Support person who is
knowledgeable about the EtherPort.  Otherwise you will be referred to
Dayna Communications.

Dayna (801/531-0600) is writing new drivers to provide full support for
an assortment of protocols under A/UX 2.0.  Recieved an anonymous note
from a Novell employee who was unable to obtain drivers for his
Etherport II and got his boss to buy him an Apple card.  Don't know if
the Dayna drivers are available yet.  Will have to call them again
Monday morning.

I am in the midst of attempting to install the 1.1 driver on my IIci.
Jim notes that these drivers are for the OLDER version of the EtherPort
II.  Should find a sticker on the back of the card that indicates:
9800048-xx or 9800083-xx.

So far so good.  Followed Jims instructions and built an new kernel.
Rebooted.  A/UX came up without a hitch.  Fixed up my /etc/hosts.
Installed the card in the IIci.  Hooked it up to the ethernet.
Rebooted another time.  Tried a ping.  "sendto: Network is unreachable".
Did a netstat.  There is no route.  Time to read TFM.

Found instructions about a bunch of stuff I had already done.  Took a 
closer look at the files that came from Jim's tar file.  startup_ep is
a script that is installed as /etc/startup.d/ep, it asks questions and
sets a lot of things up that need to be setup.  What command do I have
to issue to get its argument list built and the script executed?

Thanks,


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