I've got a sparc20 with an onboard and third party NIC installed. I am
running Solaris 8 2/02 freshly installed with the non-networked option. My
setup is Sparc20 (Solaris 8) -> Linksys BEFW11S4 v2 Router (with a Windows
XP Pro PC and Windows XP Pro laptop connected wirelessly and my xbox and ps2
hooked up to the switch in the back of the router) -> Motorola Cable Modem
(Charter Pipeline). All of the Windows and game systems work fine with DHCP.
Now I want to set up the spacr20 system for DHCP. What do I do? I have tried
the rite consulting faqs and many other faqs and nothing seems to work. I
have rebuilt the system 4 times because I continually changed too many files
to get things to work. The farthest I got was pinging the router. Could
someone please tell me the steps that I should take to get my sparc20
connected to the internet using DHCP? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This has been a 2 month process. I had it connected and working before I
moved, but after the move I reinstalled the Solaris 8 software and now I
forgot how I got this to work. Thanks in advance!

DJG

"Devin James Gray" <devinjamesgray@hotmail.com> writes:

>I've got a sparc20 with an onboard and third party NIC installed. I am
>running Solaris 8 2/02 freshly installed with the non-networked option. My
>setup is Sparc20 (Solaris 8) -> Linksys BEFW11S4 v2 Router (with a Windows
>XP Pro PC and Windows XP Pro laptop connected wirelessly and my xbox and ps2
>hooked up to the switch in the back of the router) -> Motorola Cable Modem
>(Charter Pipeline). All of the Windows and game systems work fine with DHCP.
>Now I want to set up the spacr20 system for DHCP. What do I do? I have tried
>the rite consulting faqs and many other faqs and nothing seems to work. I
>have rebuilt the system 4 times because I continually changed too many files
>to get things to work. The farthest I got was pinging the router. Could
>someone please tell me the steps that I should take to get my sparc20
>connected to the internet using DHCP? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>This has been a 2 month process. I had it connected and working before I
>moved, but after the move I reinstalled the Solaris 8 software and now I
>forgot how I got this to work. Thanks in advance!

If you do:

	sys-unconfig

then, on reboot, it should ask about DHCP, and offer to configure
accordingly.

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Devin James Gray wrote:

> I've got a sparc20 with an onboard and third party NIC installed. I am
> running Solaris 8 2/02 freshly installed with the non-networked option. My
> setup is Sparc20 (Solaris 8) -> Linksys BEFW11S4 v2 Router (with a Windows
> XP Pro PC and Windows XP Pro laptop connected wirelessly and my xbox and ps2
> hooked up to the switch in the back of the router) -> Motorola Cable Modem
> (Charter Pipeline). All of the Windows and game systems work fine with DHCP.
> Now I want to set up the spacr20 system for DHCP. What do I do? I have tried
> the rite consulting faqs and many other faqs and nothing seems to work. I
> have rebuilt the system 4 times because I continually changed too many files
> to get things to work. The farthest I got was pinging the router. Could
> someone please tell me the steps that I should take to get my sparc20
> connected to the internet using DHCP? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> This has been a 2 month process. I had it connected and working before I
> moved, but after the move I reinstalled the Solaris 8 software and now I
> forgot how I got this to work. Thanks in advance!

If Neil's advice doesn't work, drop me a line and I'll
try to sort you out.  (I wrote the Soalris DHCP you
refer to.)

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I tried sys-unconfig about 3 times and was unsuccessful. Thanks for the help
though.

"Neil W Rickert" <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> wrote in message
news:br5mhl$9r4$2@husk.cso.niu.edu...
> "Devin James Gray" <devinjamesgray@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> >I've got a sparc20 with an onboard and third party NIC installed. I am
> >running Solaris 8 2/02 freshly installed with the non-networked option.
My
> >setup is Sparc20 (Solaris 8) -> Linksys BEFW11S4 v2 Router (with a
Windows
> >XP Pro PC and Windows XP Pro laptop connected wirelessly and my xbox and
ps2
> >hooked up to the switch in the back of the router) -> Motorola Cable
Modem
> >(Charter Pipeline). All of the Windows and game systems work fine with
DHCP.
> >Now I want to set up the spacr20 system for DHCP. What do I do? I have
tried
> >the rite consulting faqs and many other faqs and nothing seems to work. I
> >have rebuilt the system 4 times because I continually changed too many
files
> >to get things to work. The farthest I got was pinging the router. Could
> >someone please tell me the steps that I should take to get my sparc20
> >connected to the internet using DHCP? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
> >This has been a 2 month process. I had it connected and working before I
> >moved, but after the move I reinstalled the Solaris 8 software and now I
> >forgot how I got this to work. Thanks in advance!
>
> If you do:
>
> sys-unconfig
>
> then, on reboot, it should ask about DHCP, and offer to configure
> accordingly.
>