Re: Netra T1 with kern 2.4.18 and HME ethernet

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> Quick summary: Netra T1 ethernet ports don't work - should they (yet)?

Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try the tftp image at:
> http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/

That works a treat - thank you very much!

I guess I should also own up to a mistake on my part... it would have
helped if I'd configured eth4 instead of eth5 to link to the cable
plugged into the first built-in port...! Sigh.

Much less importantly, I still get no activity using any of the quad
HME ports, other than a link light on the switch. Is this a known problem?

Cheers,

Netra T1 with kern 2.4.18 and HME ethernet

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Hi folks,

Quick summary: Netra T1 ethernet ports don't work - should they (yet)?


I have got a set of five Netra T1s. These use the UltraSPARC
II chip, which I understand is sun4u architecture. Each one has
neither floppy nor CD-ROM drive, but does have two onboard ethernet
ports and also a HME quad ethernet card. I'm using the TFTP image from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/tftpboot.img
as described in the Debian Installation Guide at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install.

The TFTP boot process works, and I can start the woody installation
process quite happily.

My problem is that although the installation process detects all six
ethernet ports, none of them can receive data. (For example, I can see
DHCP requests go out, and the reply come back from the DHCP Server,
but the kernel never sees the packets arrive: ifconfig shows zero
packets received.) I've also tried configuring the ports manually using
ifconfig - in fact that's my preferred approach - but this didn't help,
either.

I've noticed that the docs are relatively old, and tend to refer to 2.2.x
kernels, whereas the TFTP boot image uses 2.4.18. There are warnings about
"older" kernels not supporting the onboard ethernet ports, so I've also
tried several of the 4-port ethernet ports.

Here are the pertinent boot messages (copied by hand from a real terminal
connected to the Netra's serial console):

| sunhme.c v1.99 12/Sep/99
| eth0-3: Quattro HME (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet DEC21153 PCI Bridge
| eth0 Quattro HME slot 0 (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b2:79:21
| eth1 Quattro HME slot 0 (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet ...
| eth2 HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet ...
| eth3 HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet ...
| eth3 HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet ...
| eth5 HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:ad:de:10

Should Netra T1s be able to communicate over the network? I don't mind
whether I use the onboard ethernet ports or the HME 4-port card. I'd
just like it to talk to me  :-)

Cheers,
Chris

Debian 3.0 for SPARC

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Hello all,

I am installing Debian 3.0 for SPARC already for the 10th time (changing the
partition scheme every time ...) because at the end of every installation
the installation program sends out an error message saying that the device
is out of space ... I just cannot believe it ... I am using a 9 GB Sun
hardisk, now with ONLY 2 partitions, sda1 of  7 GB and a swap of 2 GB, I am
NOT REQUIRING THE INSTALLATION PROGRAM TO INSTALL ANY APPLICATION and
regularly at about the end of the installation I get this damned message ...
does anybody know a way out?

Best regards - Lou