From: johnny A (johnny_a0_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 04:28:55 CEST
Message-ID: <20030613022855.9130.qmail@web40101.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:28:55 -0700 (PDT) From: johnny A <johnny_a0@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Sparc Classic: ethernet hardware issue
I got a sparc4 with 20 gig HD & cd rom for sale. OS
installed is Suse 7.3
johnny agarwal
--- Will Roberts <oldbear@arctos.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install SuSE linux 7.3 for Sparc onto
> an old Sparc Classic.
> All is well except I discovered that the Classic has
> a bad on-board
> ethernet port. This causes both the obvious problem
> (no network connection)
> and the side effect of:
>
> INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for
> 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for
> 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for
> 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for
> 5 minutes
> etc.
>
> which I believe to be the result of the Sparc's
> ethernet port generating
> error messages which SuSE thinks are attempts to log
> into one of the
> tty ports via the ethernet.
>
> I have available a Sun 501-2015 and a Sun 501-2981
> Sbus ethernet card and
> would like to substitute such a card for the broken
> onboard ethernet
> port. The question is how to disable (or ignore)
> the onboard port and
> to recognize the Sbus card as either le0/eth0 or as
> le1/eth1.
>
> I believe the Sparc Classic "sees" the ethernet
> board on the Sbus, but I
> am not sure:
>
> ok show-sbus
> SBus slot 4 ledma le SUNW,bpp audio espdma esp
> SBus slot 0 lebuffer le dma esp
> SBus slot 1 cgthree
> SBus slot 2
> SBus slot 3 cgthree
>
> Do I need to create a device name alias for this
> card and/or remove or
> redefine the existing devalias "NET" or "NET-TPE"
> for the onboard port?
>
> ok devalias
> screen
> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/cgthree@1,0
> net-g net:,SUNXT_KERNEL.SUN4M
> ...
> net-aui
> /iommu/sbus/ledma@4,8400010:aui/le@4,8c00000
> net-tpe
> /iommu/sbus/ledma@4,8400010:tpe/le@4,8c00000
> net
> /iommu/sbus/ledma@4,8400010/le@4,8c00000
> ...
>
> How do I do this and how do I identify the Sbus
> /iommu address of the
> device?
>
>
>
/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/lebuffer@0,40000/le@0,60000
>
>
/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/ledma@4,8400010/le@4,8c00000
>
>
/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/lebuffer@0,40000/le@0,60000
>
>
/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/ledma@4,8400010/le@4,8c00000
>
> (The above addresses from the failed "watch-net-all"
> openboot diagnositic.)
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Will
> The Old Bear
>
>
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