Re: SunFire V240 network cards

Dear Mauro, >> Also, a XA might be a good plan C. > Sorry, I don't understand what you say? XA??? :S A four-port Gigabit Ethernet card compatible with V210/V240 for a great price on the second-hand market. Best wishes, Elmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debia

Re: SunFire V240 network cards

Dear Mauro, > I believe that this is the same problem as described a year or so ago on a > V210. I've never met this problem but I upgraded the FW/BIOS/ALOM/OBP/POST/PROM/whatever to the latest (8-year ;) version before installing Debian - might an old FW trigger this issue? Broadcom seems to a

Re: SunFire V240 network cards

Dear Mauro, I hope this helps to debug the problem - a very similar model, a V210 works for me with stock Debian 7 (kernel 3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp) - it has the same network card configuration at first glance: :00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Etherne

Kernel panic - not syncing: Irrecoverable deferred error trap.

Dear Debian Sparc List, I have encountered a "Kernel panic - not syncing: Irrecoverable deferred error trap." on a Sun Fire V210 running Debian 7.2 as a bridged iptables firewall. Before we repurposed it as a firewall, Solaris 2.8 was running on it flawlessly for years except for fan replacement