Gerhard Poul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > first... every time the ethernet is coming up my terminal is destroyed. > > > (who needs a serial terminal anyway...) > > > > Ok, who's issue is this? Kernel issue? could you make sure a bug is > > filed in the right place? > > well.. - maybe you can tell me how to find out who's responsible > for that bug... - I certainly don't know... :-(( > > If I'd know where to file a bug report I would've already filed > one.
I would suggest filing it under the kernel-image-* package you are using. I believe that's kernel-image-2.2.19-sun4cdm. > > > the really interesting part was that /etc/inittab had to be modified to > > > start the configuration tools (and later the getty) on the right > > > interface because by default it only starts them on tty1 to tty5 > > > (which don't exist) > > > > This is after installation and reboot, right? > > ack. This bug would be against boot-floppies please! > > What could we do about this? Perhaps base-config could be do > > something, I dunno. > > I don't know which utility normally makes these modifications but I > know that the last stable version of debian worked on alpha using > a serial console so I hink it was implemented correctly there. > > > > Is this known? - let me tell you... it's rather unuseable in that state... > > > :-((( > > > > It's unusable because it's not starting a getty on the serial line? > > exactly. Yah, it definately sounds like a bad boot-floppies bug. You might file it important. > > > I thought installing debian on my sparc would be a non-issue... but > > > it seems that I was wrong and I needed about 5 hours to get it working. > > > > > > I hope you can fix these behaviour. thanks. > > > > I hope so too but if you can stay with us and help us attribute which > > package can be modified to fix these bugs, that will help ensure that > > we actually are able to fix this. > > I hope so. - I can't promise to help you though because I don't have > much time at the moment and still have a few other things to fix and don't > have very much time to invest into this issue, but I'll try to be > as responsive as possible. If you can file the two bugs against those two packages, we can try to take care of the rest. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
