Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-17 Thread crn
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Mr Ian Primus wrote: Doing some more digging, it seems that the Sun fibre channel driver is missing from recent versions of the kernel, the newest one I've been able to find that contains it is 2.6.23. On this kernel, it's in drivers/fc4, and Fibre Channel support is a

Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:16:05PM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote: So, now I have Linux installed. Next task: getting the fibre channel working. I'm currently digging through the configuration options on the kernel. (Downloaded 2.6.33.1 from kernel.org) I can't for the life of me find the Sun

Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-16 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 19:50 -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote: lsmod reports that esp_scsi and sun_esp are both loaded. I can't remove/reinsert the module because rmmod isn't a valid command from the installer disc. Will modprobe -r do what you are looking for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-16 Thread Mr Ian Primus
--- On Tue, 3/16/10, Frans van Berckel fberc...@xs4all.nl wrote: Ian Primus wrote: lsmod reports that esp_scsi and sun_esp are both loaded. I can't remove/reinsert the module because rmmod isn't a valid command from the installer disc. Will modprobe -r do what you are looking for? Hehe.

Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-16 Thread Mr Ian Primus
Doing some more digging, it seems that the Sun fibre channel driver is missing from recent versions of the kernel, the newest one I've been able to find that contains it is 2.6.23. On this kernel, it's in drivers/fc4, and Fibre Channel support is a menu option right in the main menu after make

Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-15 Thread Mr Ian Primus
I'm attempting to install Debian on my Sun Enterprise 4500. I've downloaded the Sparc netinst (5.0.4), cut the disc and booted the Sun from it. All seems to go well, but then it complains it can't find the CDROM. By manually telling it to use /dev/cdrom, it'll continue, but as soon as it goes