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In article <12DEC199223041425@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com
 (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
> In article <1992Dec12.210756.993@dragon.com>, cts@dragon.com
> (Charles T. Smith, Jr.) writes...
> #I recently inherited a MicroVAX 2000...  any documentation is long gone.
> #This beastie has a thinwire port;  however, it does not appear to be 
> #enabled.  VMS boots ok;  the only devices are the disk and the terminal
> #ports.
> # 
> #Can anyone give me any hints on what it takes to enable the Ethernet
> #port?  Which test F...E...D, etc, indicates the Ethernet, or how
> #to read the TEST 50 output?
> 
> The MicroVAX 2000 has a thinwire ethernet port which is enabled and
> cannot be disabled.  It test as TEST 1.  If your boot shows:
> F...E...D... 1... then your ethernet is ok.  If 1 shows as ? or _
> then you've got an error.  Type   >>> TEST 1 and see what you get.
> The errors generaly mean (0000.7001 or some such) that you didn't
> hook it up to an active dempr port or thinwire network correectly.

You should also know that, though all MicroVAX 2000's had an external
thinwire interface, the base model did not include the actual ethernet
interface.  You might want to open it up and see if it's attached (the
box isn't very easy to open and harder to close, though).
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