Ken> I still have not solved how to get my AURORA LINUX package to see Ken> the added SBUS quad ethernet card in my SUN SPARC ULTRA --so---> Let's see if I remember correctly. The Ultra 1 probably has an HME (Happy Meal Ethernet) interface card, which is 10/100. The quad card you put in is probably a QFE card. Can you boot up the system and see what modules you have in /lib/modules* and also post your dmesg output and lsmod output as well? Ken> I am after some of the files that I have stored on this SAMBA server. I can understadn your frustration! Ken> I figured I could use Hyper Terminal. I have an appropriate Ken> cross over cable with a 24 pin connector to plug into the SPARC's Ken> Terminal A or Terminal B. Ken> I can configure Hyper Terminal on my PC running WINDOWS XP. Ken> I am stuck figuring out how to get the SUN to activate this asynchronous interface. Umm... by default the Sparcs will use ttya as the console input/output if you don't have a keyboard hooked upto the system. Do you have one hooked up when you boot or is it headless? Here's what I'd do: - power off the system. - hook up the serial cable to port A on the Sparc, and COM1 on your PC. Make sure it's a null-modem cable. - unhook any keyboard on the sun. - fire up hyperterm and set to 9600 baud. - start the sparc. You should see output. Send a BREAK sequence (ESC-F I think) to get to the 'ok' prompt on the Sparc. - you should be all set to type, etc. The real issue, as someone else said, is that you need to modify the /etc/inittab file to have a line like this: cd:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty console 9600 vt100 so that you'll have serial access from both the low level PROM, and from Linux. Basically, you should be able hookup adn use the quad ethernet card, you might just need to load the proper module, or re-compile the kernel to have support for that module. More details will help us to help you. The other solution would be to boot the machine, and then setup a ppp link (or even slip) over a serial port to another computer and then you could scp/ftp the file(s) over to a system with a working ethernet port. Depends on whether you have PPP packages installed or not. And whether you have another linux box available to act as the other end of the link. I know very little about PPP on a windows box and I don't want to go there if I can help it. Pulling the disks and putting them into another SCSI system would also let you get the data off there. Hope this helps. John