Thanks to all that replied...Rick Kelly, sunmanagers, Bob Smart, Tony Walsh, William Yodlowsky, and Steve Camp...all replies agreed that the battery is probably dead, so getting a new NVRAM/battery is around $10-$20 (battery located below NVRAM). Since this sparc2 was on it's way out, I probably won't upgrade or such, will use it as palet to put stuff on ;) - Mike On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Mike's List wrote: > ok banner > SPARCstation 2, No Keyboard > ROM Rev. 2.4.1, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #16777215. > Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff. > The IDPROM contents are invalid > > Does the above indicates my OBP is hosed? I tried set-defaults > but still received the same display when tried banner command... > Is there other commands to reload or force reload of the NVRAM > for Ethernet address and Host ID? > > I'll try anything, it's a sparc2 so no biggie if I screwed up, > the thing was on it's way out the door...thought I load and old > Solaris 7 version and try to make some use for it... > > NOTE: I've already visited the www.squirrel.com website for OBP/ID change > and it worked, assigning new ethernet address and host id...but I > want to reload what's on the NVRAM (original setting). > > SPARCstation 2, No Keyboard > ROM Rev. 2.4.1, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #12648430. > Ethernet address 8:0:20:c0:ff:ee, Host ID: 55c0ffee. > > > - Mike _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Sun Apr 14 13:59:24 2002
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