>Hi, >Now that the problem with my keyboard has been solved, there >are still a few minor problems with my sparc-linusx installation > >1) Configuration of serial ports: At boot, I get the message: > >Configuring serial port failed ... >Trying to load the serial modules manually >insmod serial: no modules by that name found >Cannot autoconfigure port: invalid argument >Cannot autoconfigure port: invalid argument >done >/dev/ttyS2: operation not support by device >/dev/ttyS3: operation not support by device > >What I have done wrong. I have never configure the serial port and in >the installation menu, I was never asked to do so.
It looks like the setserial package thinking it's an i386. Don't worry about it, the serial ports work. >2) X installation: The package xbase_3.3.2.2-1.1_sparc.deb on >ftp.netg.se:/pub/Linux/sparc/X can't be installed because it required >ncurse-base (>= 1.9.9g-86) while that on the system is 1.9.9g-8. So I >have gto install of the main ftp site xbase_3.3.1-2.deb instead. Err, I see an ncurses-base 1.9.9g-8.8 in the archives... >3) nis_2.10-1.deb can't be installed, it requires the old libc5 and >libgdbm1, both of them I can't find on the ftp site. (Alos why nis >isn't compiled with the new libc6 ?) > >1) and 2) do not seem to have any visible effect to the operation of >the system, but 3) is a problem. The machine have been part of the >network through NIS and I can't afford to lost this facility. Have any >one succeed in installing nis in a sparc-linux system ? I have used nis on debian-sparc in the past (I don't currently - I expect to again shortly, as my home network is getting a bit big). IIRC, there were some problems with compiling nis with libc6 on sparc - though I don't recall what they were. Anyway, libc5 and libgdbm1 are both in oldlibs, so, while not libc6, it should still work. Regards, /Anders -- -- Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Anders Hammarquist | Mud at Kingdoms | [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetGuide Scandinavia | telnet kingdoms.se 1812 | Fax: +46 31 50 79 39 http://www.netg.se | | Tel: +46 31 50 79 40 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]