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I purchased an RS6000 on ebay ( 170 44p ), AIX 5.3L installed,
intending to learn AIX and Linux. The initial config went clean but
since then nothing is working.

The first issue I would like to correct is how do I login to a plain
old command line? The KDE and now GNOME desktops are very slow to
start up. ( 10 minutes ) And once they do nothing seems to work.
- my PS2 style keyboard - the DELETE, BACKSPACE, HOME, and most
other keys like this do not work. Only numbers, letters and the enter
key work.
- from the KDE shell I can start FTP but then cant OPEN a connection
to anything. Even something like "open 10.10.10.3" which is another
system on my LAN which I verified can be connected to from a 3rd
system.
- from the KDE shell I could PING 10.10.10.3 . At least I think I
can. After a message for the first ping packet is displayed, the shell
seems to go into never never land. I gave it 5 minutes and suspect it
would eventually timeout but I quit KDE at that point.

I have a book titled "AIX 5L Administration". Getting started book
recomendations are welcome.

appreciate the help,

-Steve

StephenRichter@gmail.com wrote:
> I purchased an RS6000 on ebay ( 170 44p ), AIX 5.3L installed,
> intending to learn AIX and Linux. The initial config went clean but
> since then nothing is working.
>
> The first issue I would like to correct is how do I login to a plain
> old command line?

ok. failsafe seems to be working ok.

> start up. ( 10 minutes ) And once they do nothing seems to work.
> - my PS2 style keyboard - the DELETE, BACKSPACE, HOME, and most
> other keys like this do not work. Only numbers, letters and the enter
> key work.

in failsafe the keyboard works better. BACKSPACE for example works.
DELETE and INSERT dont work however.

> - from the KDE shell I can start FTP but then cant OPEN a connection
> to anything. Even something like "open 10.10.10.3" which is another
> system on my LAN which I verified can be connected to from a 3rd
> system.
> - from the KDE shell I could PING 10.10.10.3 . At least I think I
> can. After a message for the first ping packet is displayed, the shell
> seems to go into never never land. I gave it 5 minutes and suspect it
> would eventually timeout but I quit KDE at that point.

PING is just hanging on me. I think the first packet message I am
seeing is what is being sent, not what is coming back.

My main question now is how do I get this system to talk to the
network? On my initial install all my network settings were accepted. I
assumed that meant they were valid.

thanks,

-Steve

StephenRichter@gmail.com wrote:

>
> PING is just hanging on me. I think the first packet message I am
> seeing is what is being sent, not what is coming back.
>
> My main question now is how do I get this system to talk to the
> network? On my initial install all my network settings were accepted. I
> assumed that meant they were valid.

some command line commands.

>hostname
aix

>ifconfig en0
flags=4e080863,80<UP,.....

netstat -s shows stuff.

arp -s ether www.google.com ----- this hangs




>
> thanks,
>
> -Steve

> StephenRichter@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> > PING is just hanging on me. I think the first packet message I am
> > seeing is what is being sent, not what is coming back.
> >
> > My main question now is how do I get this system to talk to the
> > network? On my initial install all my network settings were accepted. I
> > assumed that meant they were valid.

I'd run "smitty tcpip" and set up your TCP/IP settings. Try enabling
DHCP if you're on a network segment with a DHCP Server (including
attached to a home firewall/router)

> some command line commands.
>
> >hostname
> aix
>
>
> >ifconfig en0
> flags=4e080863,80<UP,.....

It should have more info, like an IP address. See my comment above
about setting up TCP/IP with SMIT.

> netstat -s shows stuff.

netstat -s almost always shows "stuff" even if you don't have a valid
IP address yet.

>
> arp -s ether www.google.com ----- this hangs

This isn't how the arp command works. This is mosly for adding an IP
address to the ARP table. I know it says "arp -s ether hostname" or
something. Hostname is usually an IP address on your local network and
in place of ether you type the MAC (ethernet) address that belongs to
the machine with that IP. A valid arp command looks more like this:

arp -s 00E:AD:BE:3F:00 192.168.0.54

>

As far as your other problems, many shells don't acknowledge valid uses
for the DEL and INS keys. If you ever have problems with backspace in
a shell, type:

stty erase <hit backspace, it'll make a funny character on the screen>
<hit Enter>

That should remedy the backspace issue for that one time. You can put
it in .profile if you wish.

Best of luck!

--Noah

StephenRichter@gmail.com schrieb:
> I purchased an RS6000 on ebay ( 170 44p ), AIX 5.3L installed,
> intending to learn AIX and Linux. The initial config went clean but
> since then nothing is working.

good idea :-)

>
> The first issue I would like to correct is how do I login to a plain
> old command line? The KDE and now GNOME desktops are very slow to
> start up. ( 10 minutes ) And once they do nothing seems to work.
> - my PS2 style keyboard - the DELETE, BACKSPACE, HOME, and most
> other keys like this do not work. Only numbers, letters and the enter
> key work.

Could be a wrong keyboard. Those boxes like original IBM keyboards.

> - from the KDE shell I can start FTP but then cant OPEN a connection
> to anything. Even something like "open 10.10.10.3" which is another
> system on my LAN which I verified can be connected to from a 3rd
> system.
> - from the KDE shell I could PING 10.10.10.3 . At least I think I
> can. After a message for the first ping packet is displayed, the shell
> seems to go into never never land. I gave it 5 minutes and suspect it
> would eventually timeout but I quit KDE at that point.

Sounds like a misconfigured NIC.
A bit late, since you have already installed:
The plain AIX installation procedure's Installation Assistant
offers the opportunity to configure the box "network-ready".
Otherwise, "smitty" is your friend.

> I have a book titled "AIX 5L Administration". Getting started book
> recomendations are welcome.

you might also check out IBM's site

http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pser...base/aix51.htm

Noah wrote:
> > StephenRichter@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > PING is just hanging on me. I think the first packet message I am
> > > seeing is what is being sent, not what is coming back.
> > >
> > > My main question now is how do I get this system to talk to the
> > > network? On my initial install all my network settings were accepted. I
> > > assumed that meant they were valid.
>
> I'd run "smitty tcpip" and set up your TCP/IP settings. Try enabling
> DHCP if you're on a network segment with a DHCP Server (including
> attached to a home firewall/router)

it helps when you connect the network cable to the correct adapter! I
was connected to the ethernet port on the motherboard. Works a lot
better thru the PCI adapter card

thanks for the help. I will try the keyboard stuff.

-Steve