RE: Still can't switch to Operations Console

You may have to purchase both the 2 port wan and a new 8 port twinax to get
every thing to work as you want.  There are several places for used parts.
I have been using Mark Rieber at World Data Products.  (952) 404-5236,
http://www.wdpi.com  He seems very knowledgeable on the 170 hardware.

Yes you get connected and probably can run terminal emulation or OPS NAV
once the system is fully up, but not system console.  Heck you may have the
second connection for the control panel running?

Chris Bipes

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Maynard [mailto:jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxx]

As it turns out, I shoulda read the requirements in the setup guide more
closely. They list, for a 170, a requirement of a 2745 dual-port WAN card or
a 2771 (I guess it's another dual-port WAN card). My system does indeed have
a 9720 1-port WAN/4-port twinax card. I need to keep the twinax connections,
so I need to get one of the other cards and stick it in slot C09 (the only
open PCI slot in my system). I guess that means I need a 2771, since it will
be found and used wherever it's placed. My copy of the System Builder is old
enough that it doesn't list the 2771 at all, so I don't know its
ocnfiguration rules; I believe that if I want to keep the 9720, though, it
must live in slot C08 to be used as a console device. Am I correct? If I can
find a 2745 card, would it have to go in C08? If it does, do I then lose the
twinax console possibility?