Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's now working

2012-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
. That's a pain taking the HD out. Here are a few ways that you can do what you want. 1 - at the end of the powerup/reset sequence you can send a break when OBP prints the banner starting Sun Fire V210 (UltraSPARC That will get you to the ok prompt if you get that sent before boot gets too

Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's now working

2012-11-23 Thread Richard Mortimer
on Solaris I was wondering how to do this from the booted OS. That's a pain taking the HD out. Here are a few ways that you can do what you want. 1 - at the end of the powerup/reset sequence you can send a break when OBP prints the banner starting Sun Fire V210 (UltraSPARC That will get you

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

2012-11-21 Thread Richard Mortimer
Hi, On 20/11/2012 19:47, Kaya Saman wrote: On 11/20/2012 06:54 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 19/11/2012 22:36, Kaya Saman wrote: I suspect that this can be worked around quite quickly. From a quick look at the tg3 driver source code I don't think that the BAR 2 registers are actually used on

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

2012-11-21 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/21/2012 09:46 AM, Richard Mortimer wrote: Hi, On 20/11/2012 19:47, Kaya Saman wrote: On 11/20/2012 06:54 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 19/11/2012 22:36, Kaya Saman wrote: I suspect that this can be worked around quite quickly. From a quick look at the tg3 driver source code I don't

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

2012-11-20 Thread Anonymous
You wrote: License aside, Solaris whether it be 10 or 11 doesn't have many applications available for it that Linux or FreeBSD contain. Solaris has virtually everything available, it's UNIX. You can get virtually anything to build unless it's specifically written to require Linux. If you

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

2012-11-20 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/20/2012 11:22 AM, Anonymous wrote: You wrote: License aside, Solaris whether it be 10 or 11 doesn't have many applications available for it that Linux or FreeBSD contain. Solaris has virtually everything available, it's UNIX. You can get virtually anything to build unless it's

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

2012-11-20 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/20/2012 06:54 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 19/11/2012 22:36, Kaya Saman wrote: So Richard, what's your opinion on when this might get fixed or a workaround found? Crystal ball time :-) I like crystal balls!! Do you read palms too?? :-) I suspect that this can be worked around

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 relies

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
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 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

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:

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 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 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

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

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

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

2012-11-15 Thread Michael Leicht
How about looking into OBP Config? Something like test net ? I once had a similar Problem with a hardcoded IP (?) in OBP. Have you tried resseting your OBP and NVRAM? My Blade 1500 silver shoudl have the same NIC and works just great, the missing Firmware Messages appeared but never had any

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

2012-11-15 Thread Michael Leicht
How about looking into OBP Config? Something like test net ? I once had a similar Problem with a hardcoded IP (?) in OBP. Have you tried resseting your OBP and NVRAM? My Blade 1500 silver shoudl have the same NIC and works just great, the missing Firmware Messages appeared but never had any

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

2012-11-15 Thread Richard Mortimer
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 relies on there being traffic on the connected networks but can be useful. See

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

2012-11-14 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 00:13 +, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I attempted to configure a second nic on my server and added the new config to the /etc/network/interfaces file however I am left with dmesg errors: snip [ 91.472697] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: Failed to load firmware

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

2012-11-14 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/14/2012 09:30 AM, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 00:13 +, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I attempted to configure a second nic on my server and added the new config to the /etc/network/interfaces file however I am left with dmesg errors: snip [ 91.472697] tg3 0003:00:02.0:

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

2012-11-14 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 12:47 +, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi Frans, previously I got the firmware directly from the site above and simply did a wget to put it into the /lib/firmware directory. As of now I did what Patrick suggested and ran: apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree It still

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

2012-11-14 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/14/2012 01:24 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 12:47 +, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi Frans, previously I got the firmware directly from the site above and simply did a wget to put it into the /lib/firmware directory. As of now I did what Patrick suggested and ran: apt-get

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

2012-11-14 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:05 +, Kaya Saman wrote: I am getting icmp echo responses. I rejigged the interface to sit inside a new vlan: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4f:5d:1e:80 inet addr:192.168.140.2 Bcast:192.168.140.3 Mask:255.255.255.252 UP

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

2012-11-14 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/14/2012 02:39 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:05 +, Kaya Saman wrote: I am getting icmp echo responses. I rejigged the interface to sit inside a new vlan: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4f:5d:1e:80 inet addr:192.168.140.2

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

2012-11-14 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/14/2012 03:32 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 15:04 +, Kaya Saman wrote: Actually the gateway for eth0 is: 192.168.1.1/24 and the gateway for eth1 is 192.168.140.1/30; two completely different subnets. Interfaces file: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address

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

2012-11-14 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:14 +, Kaya Saman wrote: For a subnet which is /30 CIDR or 255.255.255.252 you should get 4 IP's: network, broadcast, + 2 usable - this is a kind of pseudo point-to-point interface. snip A-ha, that sounds as a clear case. All reloaded, sorry for the confusion

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

2012-11-14 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/14/2012 05:52 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:14 +, Kaya Saman wrote: For a subnet which is /30 CIDR or 255.255.255.252 you should get 4 IP's: network, broadcast, + 2 usable - this is a kind of pseudo point-to-point interface. snip A-ha, that sounds as a clear

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

2012-11-14 Thread Richard Mortimer
On 14/11/2012 17:58, Kaya Saman wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:52 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:14 +, Kaya Saman wrote: ...snip... I can't ping anywhere from the eth1 interface :-( In addition I tried eth2 as the server has 4 NICs... it doesn't even get recognized by

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

2012-11-14 Thread Kaya Saman
Megabytes System Peripherals (PROM Nodes): Node 0xf002a25c .node: f002a25c banner-name: 'Sun Fire V210' name: 'SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210' model: 'SUNW,375-3344' idprom: 01840014.4f5d1e7e..5d1e7ede.f1010a00...00fa scsi-initiator-id: 0007 stick

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

2012-11-14 Thread Anonymous
I have 1 word for you SOLARIS!!! You wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:52 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:14 +, Kaya Saman wrote: For a subnet which is /30 CIDR or 255.255.255.252 you should get 4 IP's: network, broadcast, + 2 usable - this is a kind of pseudo

Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

2012-11-13 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I attempted to configure a second nic on my server and added the new config to the /etc/network/interfaces file however I am left with dmesg errors: [ 44.418128] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev 2100] (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) MAC address 00:14:4f:5d:1e:80 [ 44.555470] tg3

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

2012-11-13 Thread Patrick Baggett
So you did apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree and still no go? I didn't seem to have any problems with this, though it was on an ia64 machine. Patrick On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I attempted to configure a second nic on my server and added

Re: sun fire v210

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Dos Santos
trying to install debian in a sun fire v210 with no luck. It fails when Remapping the kernel and hagns on there. Is there any option or comand that I'm missing? Is like the installer program can't find the image. I will apreciate any help. Thanx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

CD images for Sun Fire v210

2004-06-09 Thread Jama Poulsen
Hi, Both Sarge (sarge-sparc-netinst.iso of 2004-6-7) and Woody (debian-30r2-sparc-binary-1.iso) fail to bootstrap the kernel on a Sun Fire v210. The Sarge netinst CD stops with: [ ENTER - Boot install ] [ Type expert - Boot into expert mode ] boot: expert Allocated 8 Megs of memory