RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors

From: Alvaro Figueroa (fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 09:25:41 PST

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    From: Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr>
    Date: 14 Feb 2002 11:25:41 -0600
    Message-Id: <1013707541.11812.70.camel@lucy>
    Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors
    

    > I have compiled 2.4.17, and plan to test it in the future
    > (Sunday, maybe). I have also made the HME driver a module. Using it as
    > a
    > module, what do I need to put into /etc/modules.conf to make sure it
    > automatically loads at the appropriate time?

    I have the (probably bad) habbit of putting module load in rc.modules in
    Slackware, but it should look like

    alias eth0 sunhme

    > Hundred Megabit Ethernet (not Happy Meal Ethernet) is from the
    > field-engineering manual, which I have on CD-ROM.

    Yes, I latter read so. Interesting name of it. Also interesting theory
    from Ethan Dicks.

    > If you send the stripped down ".config", I will take a look at
    > it.

    I'll look it up and send it privately.

    > Out of curiosity, how come you are on a Sun SuSE mailing list,
    > if you do not run SuSE? I am glad to have your help, do not get me
    > wrong, just curious about that.

    I hope *I* don't send the wrong impression to this list and to its
    readers from this answer.

    I am the main developer for a project called Splack, which is a
    Slackware based sparc distribution. If someone is interested in a couple
    more details, more information is available here[1]. At the time the
    distribution is being used on several main servers here at Universidad
    Latina de Costa Rica, and I'm almost ready to start recompiling X and
    related aplications (aldo there are some existing X Gnome and KDE
    packages). If you have time to spare and you care to help to a young
    sparc distribution, I could use a hand in the splack testing process.

    Since I'm not an experienced Unix user[2] nor a kernel hacker, I'm
    always trying to read as mutch as I can to lear even more about linux.
    So I have joined the SuSE (quite recently), Debian and even Redhats
    mailing list ;) to read about common issues about the sparc
    distributions.[3]

    I also tend to start a project to use the SunPCi cards on linux, so I
    want to get to know people inside the linux-sparc world.

    And of course, I do like to help people with not distribution specific
    issues like yours.

    [1] ftp://ftp.ulatina.ac.cr/Unix/Linux/Splack/README
        sourceforge.net/projects/splack
    [2] Someone old enough to have seen the merge between SunOS and SysV for
    example
    [3] For example, I can't get the splack CD to boot on a blade, and I've
    noticed that SuSE's can. Can anyone please tell me how SuSE cds are
    made?

    -- 
    Alvaro Figueroa
    

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