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Sounds like you found the motherlode.

Look at your ethernet and TR cards very carefully. 100 mbit cards are fairly uncommon, and they can go for quite a lot of money on e-bay. (Conversely, 10 and 4/16 cards aren't worth a bent nickel.)

I haven't checked very carefully, but I'm pretty sure none of them is 100mbit - the ethernet card is 10mbit for sure (it's 10base2, not 10baseT) and I don't think there were any 100mbit TR cards widely available? I'm OK with 10mbit ethernet for now, I don't plan any serious use of AIX, I'm "just curious"

Does any one know where I can get a reference diskette image for an SMC 8013EP/A ethernet adapter?

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Finally my SMC 8013EP/A arrived.

Used the file @61C8.ADF thrown onto my reference disk to reconfigure the box.

Boot into AIXPS2 then



add the line



to /etc/rc.tcpip and reboot.

Bingo!

I still have the spurious interrupts but my cunning plan is to add another IDE....

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Wow, never seen this before....

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Heh. AIXWindows. I have never seen a screenshot of that. One of the parents of CDE.

Really? How much?

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Once you step up to the big iron, you learn all about physics, electrical standards, and first aid - usually all in the same day

A few "learning points"

I don't think I'll solve the spurious interrupt without a hardware mod to disable the IDE controller, or else get an older PS2 without IDE.

I did get it to stop writing the messages to file using /etc/syslog.conf (kern.debug).

I installed all the X disks and later PTF0024 by using two telnet sessions....

Session A to copy the *.img files to a file called /u/porter/floppy, one after the other as the installer requests the disks.

Session B to use either "installp -d /u/porter/floppy" or "updatep -d /u/porter/floppy -ac"

Saved alot of time and effort on floppies but required careful synchronisation between the sessions.

Mounting a remote volume worked well to a NetBSD 3.0 box, but not a Solaris box. So issue with disk space for compiling gcc 2.7.2 is now solved.

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I'm trying to install AIX on a PS/2 L40...it keeps giving me error code 65532 when writing kernel configuration data. Is this system not compatible?

wow! Pretty cool stuff I must say.

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Not very rare for the two I know in existence.

The Olicom 10/100 card is the only one that works in PS/2s (and definitely not AIX 1.3). The card is an ISA chipset bridged to MCA, and most PS/2 users aren't very fond of it. For this reason, people might have one just to have it, but the performance difference over the high-end 10 mbit cards is marginal and comes with high CPU usage.

On the other hand, there is the 9-K for RS/6000 machines. This is a PCI chipset bridged to MCA. It is fantastic in RS/6000 machines, and most PS/2 users don't purchase them because a driver and ADF has never been written for the PS/2.

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I know it may seem silly, but AIX will run on Virtual PC 2004 (with NO service packs).... Bochs/Qemu trip up on the bios calls AIX uses to switch to protected mode....

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I would expect no, remember we are talking over a decade ago, AIX needs an MCA machine with PS/2 BIOS.

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It'll load on a regular PC.... it just has to really be compatible... if it'll run OS/2 1.3 (and more importantly install it) it'll run AIX... or that's been my experience...

I saw someone got slip running, I may have to dig out either a machine, or build something to run VPC 2004....

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But OS/2 1.x could run on a machine without an ABIOS - at least the version distributed by Microsoft. I am not sure IBM intended AIX 1 to be used on non-PS/2 machines.

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