Best contribution for Ultra 10?

2009-12-27 Thread Dave Barnett
All: I have finally retired my Sun Ultra 10 from active use as my firewall. It is running Lenny, and is up-to-date. I've used Debian for some time to my benefit, and now that I am in the position to do so, I'd like to give back to the Sparc port. There is nothing on the machine that is

Re: Sunfire V240, Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704

2009-11-03 Thread Dave Barnett
Jeff Thurston wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble getting all 4 ports of the onboard ethernet working. I've tried Debian 4.0 5.0, along with Ubuntu 8.04. Two of the four interfaces are recognized, it seems to be because the device IDs are not recognized? Everything else works just fine except for

sysv-rc configuration issues

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Barnett
All: Can anyone advise regarding these messages? dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot.

Re: Ultra 10 assistance

2009-08-22 Thread Dave Barnett
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Dave Barnett wrote: I believed the issue to be the NVRAM/TOD chip, but replacing it has not changed anything. I have swapped the power supply, removed all PCI cards, and the machine continues to have some limited activity as above, but without the power light

Ultra 10 assistance

2009-08-21 Thread Dave Barnett
All: Can anyone give me some guidance on this, please? I have a Sun Ultra 10 with 440Mhz processor. It has an older installation of Debian testing installed on it. I'm trying to revive it to see if I can begin contributing to the project. When I first got the machine, it worked well for

Re: Please test 2.6.29-5

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Barnett
Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, The 2.6.29-5 kernel package, uploaded to sid a couple of days ago, has successfully built on sparc. As previous versions were failing for various reasons, this is the first 2.6.29 kernel available for sparc in Debian. If you have a chance, please test it and report your

Re: Trouble with tcpdump, iftop and p0f

2009-04-25 Thread Dave Barnett
BERTRAND Joel wrote: Hello, I use debian/squeeze on some UltraSPARC workstations (U1, U2, U60, U420). For some bad reasons (a netdev watchdog error), all sparc run with a 2.6.28.x kernel. I have seen that tcpdump, iftop and p0f do not work anymore. For example, tcpdump returns

Re: XVR-500 support in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Dave Barnett
Petr: Well, a google search turned up this page (http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/) which has the Debian kernel configurations. The entry for 2.6.26-8 for sparc, config-2.6.26-1-sparc64.gz http://merkel.debian.org/%7Ejurij/2.6.26-8/sparc/config-2.6.26-1-sparc64.gz shows: #

Re: bind9 in unstable

2008-06-16 Thread Dave Barnett
: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:32:40PM -0400, Dave Barnett wrote: After installation, the daemon tries to start, but prints out: Starting domain name service...: bindnamed: syscall(capset) failed: Invalid argument: please ensure that the capset kernel module is loaded. see insmod(8) There doesn't

bind9 in unstable

2008-06-15 Thread Dave Barnett
All: On Friday, give or take, an updated bind9 package was installed on my DNS server / firewall, which is a Sun Ultra 10 running unstable. The version is: Preparing to replace bind9 1:9.4.2-10 (using .../bind9_1%3a9.5.0.dfsg-1_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement bind9 ... After

Re: ftp.us.debian.org issue?

2007-09-17 Thread Dave Barnett
Josip: No change. The directory binary-sparc still does not exist. Cheers, Dave Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:53:52PM -0400, Dave Barnett wrote: I manually go to: ftp://35.9.37.225/debian/dists/unstable/main and the directory binary-sparc does not exist

Re: ftp.us.debian.org issue?

2007-09-17 Thread Dave Barnett
to ftp.debian.org for now. --Chris On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Dave Barnett wrote: For the last several days, I cannot run apt-get update on my Ultra 10 running unstable: Get:4 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Unable to fetch file, server said

ftp.us.debian.org issue?

2007-09-16 Thread Dave Barnett
For the last several days, I cannot run apt-get update on my Ultra 10 running unstable: Get:4 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP: 35.9.37.225 21] Fetched 1B in 2s

Re: 'Illegal instruction' during boot

2006-06-21 Thread Dave Barnett
Jurij: For what it's worth, I've tried a few more things: 1. My firewall (U10, OpenBOOT 3.15) will not boot the image indicated below. It acts like the CD does not contain a valid boot image. 2. My other U10 (OpenBOOT 3.19) will boot the image, but hangs at Booting Linux as reported

Re: Please test new SILO - problems with CDROM booting may be fixed

2006-06-19 Thread Dave Barnett
Jurij: No luck, I'm afraid. Sun Ultra-10: cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) fpu : UltraSparc IIi integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 19 prom: 3.19.4 type: sun4u ncpus probed: 1 ncpus active: 1 D$ parity tl1

Ultra 10 boot issues

2006-03-22 Thread Dave Barnett
All: I can really use your help, please. I've been looking for the answer to this for the past few days, and am unable to find one. I installed from the same Woody CDs I installed my other Ultra 10. Woody came up fine. I switched from stable to unstable [same as on the other U10], and

Re: Ultra10 console problems

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Barnett
the string "Elite 3D" anymore... this type of detection is used by the /etc/init.d/afbinit script. But I guess that's not an issue for you.On Thursday 01 December 2005 02:01 am, Dave Barnett wrote: I need some help debugging this. A pointer on how to begin would be helpful I have a Sun

Ultra10 console problems

2005-11-30 Thread Dave Barnett
I need some help debugging this. A pointer on how to begin would be helpful I have a Sun Ultra 10, usually headless, running sid. Kernel 2.4.26-6 works fine. The boot completes normally, and the console is a functional and bland white characters on black background. Once the boot completes, I