Re: Sun 1 gb dual s/bus fibre card X6757A (375-3048)

2006-05-25 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Thursday 25 May 2006 02:36, john hedge wrote: > Pat, > > Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I posted the card's id > incorrectly. I subsequently requested information on 540-2989 which > Chris responded to in like fashion, to whit: > > "This is a FC-100 card which uses the FCAL driver. > Th

Re: Sun 1 gb dual s/bus fibre card X6757A (375-3048)

2006-05-24 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 08:25, john hedge wrote: > Hi List, > > Does anyone know if there's a driver for these cards and if there is > directions would be appreciated. I've done a lot of searching but > nothing seems to fit. I believe there was a working driver in late 2.2.x kernels, but from 2.4

Re: Ultra 80 hanging

2006-02-01 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:53, Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote: > On Feb 1, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Martin Morris wrote: > Memory in Sparc hardware is installed in pairs. Actually in quads in an Ultra 80. > I have a feeling that you can't use that 1GB SIMM unless you have > another installed in Bank 1.

Re: STOP-A on serial line

2005-10-10 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Monday 10 October 2005 00:15, F. Kappen wrote: > Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I want to do some tests with Debian Sarge on an Ultra2 and try to > > make a barbone work again. Added CPU and memory - since this > > machine has no graphics, I attached a terminal (DEC VT 420) to > > ser

Re: STOP-A on serial line

2005-10-09 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Hartwig Atrops declared on Sunday 09 October 2005 12:18 pm: > Hi. > > > The BREAK key. > > That was my first idea. But I can't find a break key on the DEC > keyboard. IIRC, F5 should be mapped to it, assuming a VT220 or newer. If that doesn't work, look at the "keyboard" setup menu (F3 does setu

Re: sarge install on Ultra 10

2005-09-29 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Louie, Steven declared on Thursday 29 September 2005 12:55 pm: > Hello, > > is sarge compatable with Sun Ultra 10 or 5 > > I tried to install sarge (via bootable CD) but the installer failed > with these messages: It looks like you have a bad hard disk. Are you sure that the hard disk is workin

Re: Help with sarge and some new workstation and server

2005-09-24 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Alejandro Galue declared on Wednesday 21 September 2005 09:20 am: > Hello All, > > I need to test debian on a Sun Blade 2500 (UltraSparc III) and Sun > Fire 6800 (UltraSparc IV). FYI, a Sun Fire 6800 is UltraSparc III, not IV. The 6900 is an USIV. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- ht

Re: SUN Enterprise 3000

2005-08-24 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:29, Frank F. Waarsenburg wrote: > Mailed this already to Frans. For others that are interested, here's > a copy: > > Ok, the E3000 is running like a charm right now. Here's the recipe: > Both lspci and lspci -n produce no output. lspci won't produce any output unles

Re: fc-al and A5000

2005-05-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 07:34, you wrote: > Yep, I've been given access to an e4500 with a T3 array. So far, I've > only been able to try the drivers that are currently available. I've > gone back to 2.2.4 where socal first appeared, and still can't get > things working. I can only get the socal d

Re: sarge upgrade -> root mounts readonly

2004-07-06 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 21:33, you wrote: > Hmm. I saw the same problem on an Ultra 5 running 2.6.7 with woody. > Does it have to be newer than that? Actually, I'm wrong, it was 2.4.18, when upgraded to Sarge. I ended up having some other problems that I was confusing with this (the keymap tha

Re: sarge upgrade -> root mounts readonly

2004-07-06 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 20:58, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:33:21 -0400 (EDT) > > Andy Tolonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been running woody (kernel 2.4.24) happily for 6 months on > > my ultra 10. this week, i decided to upgrade to "testing" by > > changing my sources

Re: Sparcstation 10 boot ?

2004-07-06 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 13:33, Sean Minotti wrote: > I'm wondering if the floppy/internet install should end with a SILO > install but didn't for some reason. Or whether I need to add the path > and file name to the boot command. Like Umm, Sparc 10s suffer from a prom bug which prevents booting un

Re: Take 3: sparc64 CDs work?

2004-06-09 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 08:50, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > Activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab... > failed > Checking file systems... > fsck 1.24a (02-Sep-2001) > fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda1 > (null): Try booting with devfs=nomount. This issue looks lik

SOC & Pluto on 2.6

2004-06-01 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Has anyone tried to use SOC And Pluto to run a Sun Storage Array off of an SOC (FC25/S) card? I'm currently running 2.6.7-rc1 (but have had the same thing happen with 2.4.26). I get the following messages when doing a modprobe soc (uncommented debug #defines in fc.c and pluto.c): -

Re: fdisk

2004-05-29 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Saturday 29 May 2004 13:31, Erwan MAS wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:50:38AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > [../..] > > | > the first 512 byte of /dev/hda and the 512 byte of /dev/hda1 are > | > identical . > | > | That's the case if hda1 starts at cylinder 0. And it is unlike the > | PC w

Re: Upgraded to testing, now xserver freezes

2004-05-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 15:46, Joubin Moshrefzadeh wrote: > Okay, I re-installed Debian Sparc on my Ultra5 from scratch, this > time only doing a base installation of woody, then doing a > dist-upgrade to testing, then tasksel to install desktop packages... > > but still i get errors when running

Re: Enterprise 450 UltraSparc II

2004-05-19 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 15:41, Mike Artis wrote: > My problem is that during and after installation, Debian reports the > drive order incorrectly. It is reporting disk #4 (the first slot on > the first controller card) as /dev/sda instead of disk #0 as > /dev/sda. This setup worked correctly in

Re: RAID and 2.2

2004-05-14 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Friday 14 May 2004 16:33, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Yeah, there were patches available. I don't know if there were any > in the package archive, but I tried that that exact thing on that > exact machine. Be very careful, as that code had a nasty tendency to > wipe out the disk label on one or more

Re: BUG: 2.6.6-rc3 on SMP/SPARC64 (Sun E3000) & MD / ksymoops output

2004-05-08 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Output from ksymoops is attached below. On Friday 07 May 2004 10:49, you wrote: > I've been trying to get 2.6.6-rc3 to work in SMP mode on my E3000 > without much success yet. It boots fine with a uniprocessor kernel, > but trying to enable SMP gives me this as the last few lines of the > kernel

BUG: 2.6.6-rc3 on SMP/SPARC64 (Sun E3000)? & MD

2004-05-08 Thread Patrick Finnegan
(CC'd to linux-kernel and sparclinux lists) I've been trying to get 2.6.6-rc3 to work in SMP mode on my E3000 without much success yet. It boots fine with a uniprocessor kernel, but trying to enable SMP gives me this as the last few lines of the kernel messages (booted with -p early printk opt

Re: [newbie] Install/Boot problem

2004-04-25 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Sunday 25 April 2004 18:39, Everard Brown wrote: > That sounds a very likely cause of my problem, but when I try to > create the Sun disk label ('s' option in fdisk) that is always the > default. > > Can anyone suggest how I might acheive a partitioning scheme which > would be acceptable to the

Re: [newbie] Install/Boot problem

2004-04-25 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Sunday 25 April 2004 16:37, Everard Brown wrote: > Hi All, > > I have installed woody via 'net boot'. All went well, but I can't > boot from the hard disk. > > System: SPARCstation 20 > 32Mb RAM > No floopy or CDROM drive > > Issues that make me suspicious include: > > o I used t

Re: U5 - woody (2.4.24) - 3com 3crdag675 - pci wifi adapter - madwifi driver

2004-04-18 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Sunday 18 April 2004 06:42, JLB wrote: > Where do I get this Debian default .config file? :) Err, read the WHOLE email before replying to it. (Hint, look for a URL at the end of this one.) Also, you might want to trim down what you quote in your email. I've become fairly tolerant, but yell

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

2004-04-13 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 09:30, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:45:13AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > Well, if it makes you feel any better, I can't get 2.6 to boot on > > any Sun thing I've got that I've tried it on, which has only been > &

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

2004-04-13 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Alexey Nezhdanov declared on Tuesday 13 April 2004 01:01 am: > 13/04/2004 09:45 Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > Alexey Nezhdanov declared on Tuesday 13 April 2004 12:09 am: > > > current linux kernel. And I can not try 2.6 kernel since nobody > > > agreed to mail me a compil

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

2004-04-13 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Alexey Nezhdanov declared on Tuesday 13 April 2004 12:09 am: > current linux kernel. And I can not try 2.6 kernel since nobody agreed > to mail me a compiled binary (Oh well - I know this is serious risk to Well, if it makes you feel any better, I can't get 2.6 to boot on any Sun thing I've got t

Re: ultra 10 started booting read only? corruption? rebuild?

2004-04-08 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Justin A declared on Thursday 08 April 2004 12:02 am: > On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 00:40, asera fini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My ultra 10 started booting read only, > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/debian-sparc-200403/msg00297 >.html > > :-) > > -- > -Justin And my fix... http://lists.deb

Re: HELP (patch to fix)

2004-03-25 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Euan Maxwell declared on Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:30 am: > > If it got to "init 3", then it mounted to root filesystem. Why is > > it going to stage 3 though? Normal boot is stage 2. > > It seems to have mounted the filesystem ok, just not read-write. I just ran into this problem tonight after u

Re: Ultra 10: Which port to connect to for a serial interface?

2004-03-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Satadru Pramanik declared on Tuesday 23 March 2004 01:48 pm: > I just bought a USB->Serial adapter for my laptop so that I can > connect to the Serial port on my ultra 10 and have a boot time serial > console. > > Do I get an adapter to connect (from the male DB9 port on my adapter) > to the female

Re: SILO Fun (Was: Re: Seems to be working (Was: Re: Debian and IPX))

2003-11-29 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Mauricio declared on Saturday 29 November 2003 07:49 pm: > At 13:30 -0500 11/29/03, Ben Collins wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Mauricio wrote: > >> > >> You mean this: > >> > >> /dev/sda > >>/dev/sda11102 49M ext3/boot > >>/dev/sda2

Re: Routing table on a SPARC 5

2003-09-27 Thread Patrick Finnegan
David Demland had uttereth on Saturday 27 September 2003 11:24 pm: > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 10.0.0.2 > netmask 255.255.225.0 > broadcast 10.0.0.255 > gateway 10.0.0.254 > network 10.0.0.0 > > Router:~# route -n > 10.0.0.00.0.0.0

Booting a Debian installer on a Sun SunFire 6800

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Finnegan
I'm having trouble trying to boot off of an install CD (I don't have networking set up at the moment, but could probably get that set up). I'm trying to install on a 2nd "B" domain on the machine, with a single CPU/memory board. When I try to issue the command to boot from the CDROM: {14} ok boo