[sudo-discuss] sparcstation progress

last night I played with the Sparcstation 5 that Phil got working, and tried to get it on The Internet it's plugged into ethernet, and i wanted to get it an IP address and all that...but first i had to figure out why it didn't have a MAC address. Its ethernet port is "le0" (in linux we're used to eth0) and something online said do this: # ifconfig le0 plumb but then its MAC address was 0:0:0:0:0:0 which was not gonna work. Trying to set it from ifconfig like this didn't work: # ifconfig le0 hw ether 1:2:3:4:5:6 bad address so I had to reboot and type a bunch of stuff into the "ok" prompt it boots up to, like it says here https://gist.github.com/amdprophet/e010803d581d676003a90ba36da8a269 after a reboot it started saying the MAC address I entered upon boot (before the "ok" prompt) and actually it was trying to network boot, or access something on the network - i had to press STOP and A to interrupt that, and get the "ok" prompt, where i typed "boot disk" to boot up from disk. Then I set the IP address and gateway route manually and was able to ping and telnet sites by IP address, on the internet!!!! but DNS didn't work. I put this in /etc/resolv.conf: domain jackpumpkin nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 and then nslookup worked! But other commands line ping and telnet and the web browser still couldn't resolve DNS names. I went home, but Marc says: what does /etc/nsswitch.conf say? You might have to do: cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf if the .conf does not exist Apparently this OS ships with a bunch of example config files with different extensions instead of .conf, and you copy the one you want to .conf and then edit to your liking. That's probably how we should set up the networking, rather than typing ifconfig commands each time. also don't forget to run "bash" in the terminal so you're not stuck in an annoying minimalist shell here's the wiki page i made - if you don't have an account, request one! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sparcstation#sparcstation_5 -jake