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General background:  

I am assisting in setting up a network attachment (for a terminal server(s)
and PCs) on a VAX 8650.  I am not particularly familiar with the 8650 and
unibus architecture.  The system manager at the site is not very
technically oriented, so is not much help with some of the details.  The
system has two unibuses (UB0 and UB1 according to SYSGEN SHOW/ADAPTER). 
The DELUA that we are trying to use is the only network device in the
system.

First question:  

Does the first DELUA have to go in the first unibus?  If the answer is a
resounding YES, then we may not have any other problems.

Other information:

VMS 4.5 (yes - 4.5!)

NETCONFIG generates the following:  (minus the normal PURGE lines)

  $ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:NCP
        DEFINE EXECUTOR ADDRESS 1.1 STATE ON
        DEFINE EXECUTOR NAME CBW1
        DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM ADDRESS 255
        DEFINE EXECUTOR TYPE NONROUTING IV
        DEFINE LINE     UNA-0 STATE ON
        DEFINE CIRCUIT  UNA-0 STATE ON COST 3
        DEFINE LOGGING MONITOR STATE ON
        DEFINE LOGGING MONITOR EVENTS 0,0-9
        DEFINE LOGGING MONITOR EVENTS 2.0-1
        DEFINE LOGGING MONITOR EVENTS 4.2-13,15-16,18-19
        DEFINE LOGGING MONITOR EVENTS 5.0-18
        DEFINE LOGGING MONITOR EVENTS 128.0-4

When NETCONFIG attempts to start DECnet, the following displays on the
terminal:

  %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000124
  %NCP-I-NMLRSP, listener response - Operation failure

  %SYSTEM-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline
                  , unit is active
                  , line disconnected
                  , fatal hardware error
  %NCP-I-NMLRSP, listener response - Unrecognized component, Circuit
  Circuit = UNA-0

  %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00000127

The device shows up in SHOW DEVICE as XEA0:.  In SYSGEN SHOW/DEVICE,
XEDRIVER appears.  In SYSGEN SHOW/CONFIG, the board appears with the proper
CSR and vector (set to default values for the DELUA).

Any and all thoughts and ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Oh, yes.  I HAVE removed the NPR shunt from the backplane of the slot where
the DELUA is inserted.

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