Help needed with UNIX pc STARLAN NAU connections ...

[Lenny Tropiano]

As most of you know, from reading unix-pc.general, I just got myself
two STARLAN NAU boards, and I'm having a little problems setting it up.
The only documentation I have at this present time is the STARLAN Network
Access Unit Installation guide, which isn't much help...  I loaded the
STARLAN drivers, release 1.1 (is that the most-up-to-date release?),
and everything went smoothly... (on both machines, icus and icusdvlp).

I strung the 8 conductor modular wire between the two machines in a daisy
chain fashion (one going from the in port to the other's out port).  I
ran the administrative remote tests, and sending packets and getting
remote status works just fine.   Now for the winner....  When I cu 
to that system, it just goes requesting STARLAN_NAU device, then
requesting icusdvlp.serve, then it tries to send the send sequence:

pc_uucp ""	"" NLPS:000:001:102\N\c

It seems to be hanging after that point...   It eventually gets a
timeout, and fails.   First thing I noticed when I ran cu the first
time it did a:

/etc/masterupd -c psx ...

I also noticed it tried to get some devices /dev/psx/p[0...?].  Since
no devices were there I devided to make some myself.  I used the
mknod command to make the devices, major device (from /etc/master) and
minor device 0 (for p0, device 1 for p1... etc.)  Of course I didn't
know how many to make or even if I was barking up the right tree.

Maybe some experienced UNIX pc STARLAN guru out there can email me
some installation information, what to look for, etc..  Also when I was
messing with "Enabling and Disabling" services, it sometimes gave me
the error that /usr/net/listener/starlan/dbf is corrupted or missing.
I looked and there is no directory (and or file by that name)... My
name is called /usr/net/nls/starlan/dbf (and yes, the dbf file wasn't 
there).  I then created it from what I had from my other machine:

1:na:NULL,:/usr/net/servers/sl  # Remote login
102:n:NULL,:/usr/net/servers/uucplogin  # Mail/File transfer

And then I issued a /etc/namesys<CR> to start the listen daemon.  All
seemed to work...  

Thanks in advance for any light someone can shed...  This time I'm
the one in need :-) :-)

-Lenny

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