Hi all, I've looked up the PCI device code, and according to [1] and [2] 106b:0051 corresponds to the Shasta (Sun GEM) Ethernet Controller of Apple [3].
I'm using the kernel/modules from Sven Luther [4]. Could this mean that the current sungem driver does not recognise the Shasta controller? Francois [1] http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids [2] http://www.pcidatabase.com/reports.php?type=tab-delimeted [3] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G5/PowerMacG5_SP/2Architecture/chapter_3_section_7.html [4] http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/power4/netboot/ On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:04, Francois wrote: > Benjamin, Shyamal, > > thanks for your help. I've tried again and I've explicitly selected > sungen, but with no success. The strange thing is I do see an Ethernet > device in the pci tree (from /proc/pci): > > ------ > ~ # cat /proc/pci > <snip/> > Bus 3, device 15, function 0: > Ethernet controller: PCI device 106b:0051 (Apple Computer Inc.) (rev 0). > IRQ 40 > Master Capable. Latency=16. Min Gnt=64.Max Lat=64. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80400000 [0x805fffff] > <snip/> > ------ > > sungem also gets loaded as a module (along with sungem_phy and crc32): > > ------- > ~ # lsmod > Module Size Used by > sungem 37124 0 > crc32 5120 1 sungem > sungem_phy 10496 1 sungem > ds 24068 0 > yenta_socket 23936 0 > pcmcia_core 77076 2 ds,yenta_socket > usbserial 33968 0 > usbhid 54272 0 > ehci_hcd 37380 0 > ohci_hcd 26500 0 > usbcore 139380 6 usbserial,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd > unix 32408 8 > ------- > > But I get not network device: > > ------- > /usr/bin # ifconfig eth0 > ifconfig: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > ------- > > I've filled an installation report with this information. > > Do you see anything else I could try? > > Cheers > > Francois > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 07:30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:30 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > > "Francois" == Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Francois> I'm now blocked with the Ethernet driver: debian > > > Francois> installer can not detect automatically which ethernet > > > Francois> card my G5 is using, so it asks me to pick a > > > Francois> driver. I've tried sungem, sungen_phy and bmac, with no > > > Francois> success. Debian installer brings me invariably back to > > > Francois> the driver menu. > > > > > > Francois> Does someone know which driver I should use? Within Mac > > > Francois> OS X, I only know that I'm using the "built-in" ethernet > > > Francois> card, with no extra info. > > > > > > I don't have exactly the same machine as yours, but here is what I > > > have when booting from the Debian 2.6.8 kernel (*not* the d-i kernel) > > > on a dual G5 (PowerMac7,3) > > > > All recent Apple machines have a sungem. > > > > Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]