Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
So Richard, what's your opinion on when this might get fixed or a workaround found? Basically I'm a bit in limbo now as the machine is built to the spec I need bar the NICs. Should I switch OS for now or do you think I should persist in debugging until a solution is reached? Of course I wo

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Richard Mortimer
On 19/11/2012 17:34, Kaya Saman wrote: On 11/19/2012 04:28 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: # dmesg | grep tg3 [ 41.528377] tg3.c:v3.121 (November 2, 2011) [ 42.096605] tg3 :00:02.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Martin
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 20:04 +, Anonymous wrote: > SOLARIS 10 SPARC!!! > > You KNOW you want it! ;-) > > No Linux, no FSF, no problem! I'm going to assume this is meant as a helpful suggestion rather than a troll*. But, this is the Debian SPARC mailing list, about running Debian (mostly GNU+

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
License aside, Solaris whether it be 10 or 11 doesn't have many applications available for it that Linux or FreeBSD contain. So if Firefox and Thunderbird are enough that's great but anything else forget about. OpenSolaris was becoming much better but thanks to Oracle they killed that off and

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Patrick Baggett
Right, no problems except for this: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/solaris-cluster-express-license-167852.html That's right, the EULA. You probably haven't read it, but I have, and in particular, this clause is more problematic than the GPL, FSF, or BSD license ever will be: "Except

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Anonymous
SOLARIS 10 SPARC!!! You KNOW you want it! ;-) No Linux, no FSF, no problem! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7987e47f0532f145633ef5d380e0c...@mail.ho

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/19/2012 04:28 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 19/11/2012 15:46, Kaya Saman wrote: On 11/19/2012 03:36 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: So as I suspected eth0 and eth1 are the ports labelled net0 and net2 Did you try connecting the cable to those ports and testing. From what I've see and wh

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Richard Mortimer
On 19/11/2012 15:46, Kaya Saman wrote: On 11/19/2012 03:36 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: So as I suspected eth0 and eth1 are the ports labelled net0 and net2 Did you try connecting the cable to those ports and testing. From what I've see and what others have said I suspect that will just work

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/19/2012 03:36 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: [...] ok watch-net-all /pci@1d,70/network@2,1 Timed out waiting for Autonegotiation to complete Check cable and try again Link Down /pci@1d,70/network@2 100 Mbps full duplex Link up Looking for Ethernet Packets. '.' is a Good Packet.

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Richard Mortimer
Hi, On 19/11/2012 14:45, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi Richard, sorry for the delay in response. Please see in line output below: On 11/15/2012 12:19 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 15/11/2012 08:35, Michael Leicht wrote: How about looking into OBP Config? Something like "test net" ? I was going to

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi Richard, sorry for the delay in response. Please see in line output below: On 11/15/2012 12:19 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 15/11/2012 08:35, Michael Leicht wrote: How about looking into OBP Config? Something like "test net" ? I was going to suggest trying using "watch-net-all". It reli