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In <34C62D5A.3144@aur.alcatel.com> Toby Creek <creek@aur.alcatel.com> writes:

>I don't know that you will be able to get it working with an IPX.
>You have three options:

>1. Buy a Sun BRI ISDN card.  They are discontinued and cheap.  They take
>one SBUS slot and give you 16 bit audio.  The connector for the
>speakerbox is on there.

A standard IPX might not have enough CPU grunt for the ISDN card. Maybe
someone who's used the Sun-ISDN software with one in a Sparc IPX can comment
on this? 

>2.  Gut the speakerbox.  Hook up a power supply, bypass the buttons on
>top, and try to mate the signal level from the IPX headphone out to the
>inputs on the speakerbox.   NOT RECOMMENDED.

8-)

>3.  Buy an LX.  Bare, they can be had for $300 or less.  I have one, and
>I love it.  I added the VSIMM to do 1280x1024 (or 1600x1280, but the
>monitor won't) and the speakerbox rulez!  Your IPX disk can move right
>over, and you may be able to use the RAM if it is 60ns.

Unfortunately, the disk from the IPX *cannot* move right over, since the LX
is a sun-4m machine, while the IPX is a sun-4c, and it needs a completely
different kernel. I don't know how to move a disk between CPU architectures
and re-install the kernel-specific parts of SunOS 5.x for the new
architecture.

That aside, I also have a Sparc LX and apart from the slow CPU, it's very
good.

Regards,

Craig.
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