Re: Updating OBP without Solaris

2006-10-23 Thread Eric Brower
On 10/23/06, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been playing over the last couple of days with booting Sun's Standalone Flash PROM Update Utility over the network using rarp and tftp, to good effect. As a general question, does anybody know whether the OS can check the state of the

Re: udev renaming interfaces fails on SunBlade100 with qfe

2006-09-19 Thread Eric Brower
present in OBP. Thanks, E On 9/19/06, Luigi Gangitano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find it attached. Thanks, L Il giorno 19/set/06, alle ore 08:33, Eric Brower ha scritto: I'm not sure if I can be of further help, but can you send 'prtconf -pv' output? On 9/18/06, Luigi Gangitano

Re: Full Duplex in Happy Meal Network interface

2006-09-15 Thread Eric Brower
On 9/14/06, Gustavo Mendes de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, I´m using a Debian Sarge version for Sparc, running in a E420, and when I run ethtool command, I get server:~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes:

Fwd: udev renaming interfaces fails on SunBlade100 with qfe

2006-09-15 Thread Eric Brower
Sorry-- forgot to include lthe list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eric Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 15, 2006 11:39 AM Subject: Re: udev renaming interfaces fails on SunBlade100 with qfe To: Luigi Gangitano [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/15/06, Luigi Gangitano [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [D-I] Network driver question - how to recognize sunqe

2006-03-16 Thread Eric Brower
Attached is prtconf output from an SS1000 system. This is from DaveM's older vger prtconf CVS repo, which I find very useful. It concurs qec would provide a root device node for a QE device. Thanks, E On 3/16/06, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Both Debian Installer and discover

Re: LIRC and SPARC (problem with ioctl32)

2005-12-28 Thread Eric Brower
On 12/28/05, Boer Attila Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, LIRC 0.7.2 compiles fine under Debian SPARC (stable). The lirc_gpio module loads succesfully (tested with 2.4.27) but after I start lircd and try to test with irw the lirc daemon dies. Here is the output from dmesg:

Re: Question on boot-message

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Brower
On 11/28/05, Jurzitza, Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear listmembers, is there some way for me to find out which ioctl is missing here and whether I do have a chance to fix this? 4sys32_ioctl(mount:146): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(4c05) arg(e898) Run the cmd value backwards through

Re: Writing OBP from Linux

2005-07-20 Thread Eric Brower
On 7/20/05, Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually do this via TFTP, but this time I don't want to do this for various reasons, so does anyone have the program to do the actuall writing of the OBP? I already extracted the actuall flash image from the OBP patch (retreived from

Re: rtc and chrony on Ultra 1 and Ultra 5

2005-04-20 Thread Eric Brower
The eeprom OBP node does not include an intr or interrupts node, so the device does not support generating interrupts (at least, as implemented). In this case, UIE_ON and UIE_OFF are invalid (the drivers/char/rtc.c driver already treats them as such, returning EINVAL). Because some devices

Re: How to use 200 GB Disk on Ultra10?

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Brower
I've run across this before-- there is a potential for OBP booting PCI IDE controllers, it seems (I've never tried): http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2002/02/24/.html E On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:23:40 +0100, Dieter Jurzitza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Roland, dear listmembers,

Re: debian on a sun enterprise 250

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Brower
[cc'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at my post regarding this issue: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg2.html I'll offer you the envctrltwo driver as well, with the understanding that there are a few remaining issues to be addressed. I can't seem to find willing testers,

Re: Maintenance light

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Brower
On the E250, the General Error LED on the front status panel is plumbed to the auxio power LED bit (logical OR, if I recall correctly). If it bothers you, I'd be happy to provide a patch to you. Alternatively, I have a rough SUNW,envctrtltwo environmental monitoring driver for the E250 I'd be

Re: Maintenance light

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Brower
...I should also mention, dropping to OBP and typing led-off then go should extinguish the light and get you back to the OS-- that's a simpler workaround ;) E On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:55:11 -0700, Eric Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the E250, the General Error LED on the front status panel

Re: unknown partition table

2004-06-14 Thread Eric Brower
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:44:07 +0200, Peter Keel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only question that bugs me now: Is this SEAGATE-SX118273LC-6367 just a model-specific string or a drive-specific one? Do I now have two drives with some same ID? Is there any way to find out such Drive-IDs? If you

Re: debian install on 5/170 turbosparc problems

2004-05-06 Thread Eric Brower
In short, support for TurboSPARC (SS5/170) in Linux is dodgy at best. You can find ample messages to this effect searching the list archives and those of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, as well at the FAQ at www.ultralinux.org. Good luck! E Ross Camm wrote: these are the boot up

Re: debian install on 5/170 turbosparc problems

2004-05-06 Thread Eric Brower
Ross Camm wrote: yes, i saw those comments re dodgy support, but other docs say that it is supported. The main developers (Pete and DaveM) have stated that it is not stable. The other docs you mention are likely incorrect and somebody was lucky. is it possible its just a prom

Re: netboot , need help

2004-04-26 Thread Eric Brower
Try reading the JavaStation HOWTO-- it describes the procedures for creating diskless client images. It is light on net-booting information, but you should be able to find those specifics elsewhere. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/JavaStation-HOWTO.html

Re: SS20 boot problem

2004-04-15 Thread Eric Brower
It is possible that your disk is external or is not in the primary SCSI disk slot. Stop-A, as you have been doing. Type 'probe-scsi-all' to see where you disk is located. Type 'devalias' and find the matching alias (i.e. disk1). Set a new default boot device with setenv boot-device

Re: Can't locate module char-major-4

2004-04-12 Thread Eric Brower
Janos Sziliczi wrote: Hi All, I found the following logs in my syslog many-many times: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 last message repeated XX times I think this alias can be turned off using 'alias char-major-4 off' in modules.conf, but I don't want to do this at the

Re: E250 LED indicators

2004-03-31 Thread Eric Brower
I have a mostly written driver that support environmental monitoring and LEDs on the E250. It will handle temperature and fan monitoring, and can control all the LEDs (currently is only twiddles the activity LED). The bigger issue that has been keeping this driver off the list to date is

Re: E250 LED indicators

2004-03-31 Thread Eric Brower
David S. Miller wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:56:06 -0800 Eric Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DaveM-- I'll float you a sysctl patch for sparc64 and sparc if you'd consider it and find the current protection valuable, otherwise perhaps machine_power_off should actually power-off

Re: E250 LED indicators

2004-03-31 Thread Eric Brower
Eric Brower wrote: [ ... ] (i.e. LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT goes to OBP, LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF goes to OBP). I may have missed some subtlety, but it seems better to handle this outside of machine_power_off, as a driver MIGHT wish to call that directly under thermal failure scenarios, etc

Re: kernel 2.4.24-sparc64-smp shutdown problem

2004-03-02 Thread Eric Brower
You are using a serial console, right? Remove the check if (!serial_console) from arch/sparc64/kernel/power.c. E Philipp Michels wrote: hi list, i got a sun ultra 2 enterprise with two 167MHZ CPUs. I run debian sarge with a 2.4.24-sparc64-smp kernel-image. The problem is that my

Re: Problem with ioctl(fd, TUNSETIFF, ...)

2004-01-30 Thread Eric Brower
The definition of TUNSETIF is: #define TUNSETIFF _IOW('T', 202, int) indicating the argument is an int rather than a struct ifreq*. This trickery (as I understand it) would work on 32-bit systems, but not 64-bit. The .../arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c translation for this ioctl is

Re: environmental monitoring

2003-12-23 Thread Eric Brower
Clint Adams wrote: On a Netra t1 105, it is possible to use the envctrl kernel module to read the CPU temperature. Is this possible with a Netra T1 AC200? Not currently. E

Re: environmental monitoring

2003-12-23 Thread Eric Brower
Clint Adams wrote: On a Netra t1 105, it is possible to use the envctrl kernel module to read the CPU temperature. Is this possible with a Netra T1 AC200? Not currently. What needs to be done to adapt the driver? A driver needs to learn about the OBP format used on a particular platform

Re: netra t4

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Brower
Take a look at the Linux on the Sun JavaStation howto-- that describes the process in detail. E VEGH Karoly wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:15:02PM -0800, Eric Brower wrote: You may wish to speak with Johan Verrept-- he built a kernel for use on his Netra T4. well, I tried to reach him

Re: netra t4

2003-12-11 Thread Eric Brower
Johan Verrept sent a patch to this list and DaveM on 26.Jan.2003 for proper booting on the T4, but it apparently never made it into the kernel sources (as per bkbits). It does not specifically address the SAB issue, but does address the fill_ebus_child issue.

Re: antares qlogic sbus scsi controller ?

2003-09-30 Thread Eric Brower
Heitzso wrote: I have an sbus antares (actually a qlogic) fast/wide scsi2 controller in my ss20 that the bootprom finds and solaris found and used but my 2.2.25 kernel flags as missing an interrupt and skips over. I think you are talking seeing this: /* Sometimes Antares cards

Re: antares qlogic sbus scsi controller ?

2003-09-30 Thread Eric Brower
not in a position to thrash the code. Heitzso Eric Brower wrote: Heitzso wrote: I have an sbus antares (actually a qlogic) fast/wide scsi2 controller in my ss20 that the bootprom finds and solaris found and used but my 2.2.25 kernel flags as missing an interrupt and skips over. I think you are talking

Re: antares qlogic sbus scsi controller ?

2003-09-30 Thread Eric Brower
Eric Brower wrote: Heitzso wrote: I have an sbus antares (actually a qlogic) fast/wide scsi2 controller in my ss20 that the bootprom finds and solaris found and used but my 2.2.25 kernel flags as missing an interrupt and skips over. I think you are talking seeing

Re: antares qlogic sbus scsi controller ?

2003-09-30 Thread Eric Brower
to figure out why postfix-tls-openssl-saslauthd-pam stopped sending out the sasl auth modes recently. I'm rigging the ss20 to be a hopefully stable SOHO edge box with mail server. Heitzso Eric Brower wrote: Yep-- missing the intr property. I'd suggest you have two choices: 1) backport my

Re: Accessing hardware

2003-06-16 Thread Eric Brower
Which system type, Elie? E Elie De Brauwer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a little question, suppose I want to write a program capable of reading out the temperature on the temperature sensor, or accessing other pieces of information the system might contain, I

Re: auto power-off on a SPARC LX (was Re: Ethernet lockup)

2003-06-04 Thread Eric Brower
The Ultra patch is not applicable. The SPARC kernel will not power-down a system with a serial console attached; from process.c: void machine_power_off(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_SUN_AUXIO if (auxio_power_register !serial_console) *auxio_power_register |= AUXIO_POWER_OFF; #endif

Re: E450 Fan tray noise

2003-01-09 Thread Eric Brower
Eddie's version from a few years back did support E450 but the fan control never did work properly for that boardset. A while back it was re-written by somebody at Sun to support a few SME boardsets and the support for E450 was removed. At this time, I can vouch for envctrl on CP1400, CP1500