Re: 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 <[email protected]> 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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