Date:	  September 3, 1992

Bulletin: B-920903-1

Subject:  Patching slattach to support SLIP on Sun SPARC systems

The version of slattach distributed with the Solaris 1.0.1 SPARCbook Version B
operating system release will not run on a standard Sun system. It is dependant
on the ni0 ethernet interface present in the SPARCbook. You must patch the
slattach binary to include the name of the ethernet interface in the Sun to
which you wish to connect.

The following instructions are used to patch slattach for the two standard Sun
ethernet interfaces. This patch should be applied to the copy of slattach on the
Sun. The copy of slattach on the SPARCbook does not need to be modified.

	1) Change to the SLIP bin directory on the Sun,

		cd /usr/slip/bin

	2) Create a backup copy of slattach,

		cp slattach slattach.orig

	3) Use adb to change ni0 to the name of the ethernet interface in the
	   Sun. This should be either le0 or ie0. Contact your Sun system
	   administrator if you need assistance in determining the correct
	   ethernet interface name.

	   Do the following if your Sun ethernet interface is le0,

		echo "6a11?w 'le'; 6965?w 'le'" | adb -w slattach

	   Do the following if your Sun ethernet interface is ie0,

		echo "6a11?w 'ie'; 6965?w 'ie'" | adb -w slattach

If you should experience any problems with this procedure, please contact
Tadpole Technology at 1-800-232-1881 and ask for SPARCbook Customer Support.

Sincerely,

SPARCbook Customer Support

(Update.  A new slattach binary that supports any machine running SunOS 4.x
is located in ../patches/B920903001.)