Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:42:50AM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:02:20PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:07:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: * I wondered why I was still booting the old kernel for a bit. * I edited the symlinks in /boot to

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-05-08 Thread Philip Kendall
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:02:20PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:07:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Anyway, since you're running 2.4.27, your experiences with the drivers unfortunately don't tell us anything about how things should be structured for etch,

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-05-03 Thread Philip Kendall
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:07:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Anyway, since you're running 2.4.27, your experiences with the drivers unfortunately don't tell us anything about how things should be structured for etch, which uses a 2.6.15 kernel in the installer with all the bugfixes and

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-05-02 Thread Philip Kendall
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:41:39PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Phil, On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:37:02PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:14:50PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: Many of the Alphas with builtin old/slow TULIPs give problems with the current

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-05-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:42:32PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: Which kernel version is this with, and what is the PCI ID of your tulip interface? $ uname -a Linux narn 2.4.27-2-generic #1 Tue Nov 22 17:12:59 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux narn:pak21:~$ lspci :00:06.0 SCSI storage

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-05-01 Thread Philip Kendall
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:14:50PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: Many of the Alphas with builtin old/slow TULIPs give problems with the current default driver (de2104x). I think it's NOT the driver's fault, but some kinda quirky implementation on the mobos. Regardless, it doesn't work

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Phil, On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:37:02PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:14:50PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: Many of the Alphas with builtin old/slow TULIPs give problems with the current default driver (de2104x). I think it's NOT the driver's fault, but some

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-01-24 Thread Cornelius Weiss
Hi Jay, many thanks for your help, with the de4x5 module the networks runs propperly. Just one last question: is there a way to make that permanent, so that the right module is loaded at boot-time? cu cornelius Jay Estabrook schrieb: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:35:39PM -0800, Steve

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Schindler
I have solved this type of configuration by setting the wrong modules to the blacklist of hotplug/udev. The right module is then in /etc/modules. If you do not put the modules into the blacklist, udev/hotplug will load the *WRONG* module additionally (leads to crash/problems). Uwe At 13:20

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-01-24 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On Tue January 24 2006 10:30, Uwe Schindler wrote: I have solved this type of configuration by setting the wrong modules to the blacklist of hotplug/udev. The right module is then in /etc/modules. If you do not put the modules into the blacklist, udev/hotplug will load the *WRONG* module

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-01-18 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:35:39PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:14:50PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Cornelius Weiss wrote: i managed to install a debian-base-system from the net-install image on a digital

no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-01-17 Thread Cornelius Weiss
Hi list, i managed to install a debian-base-system from the net-install image on a digital alpha-station255. After the reboot of DI the installation couldn't be finished, as the network isn't working. On colsole it alwas says: Wanrning: No link beat Found Is sombody aware of a solution for

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-01-17 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Cornelius Weiss wrote: i managed to install a debian-base-system from the net-install image on a digital alpha-station255. After the reboot of DI the installation couldn't be finished, as the network isn't working. On colsole it alwas says:

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

2006-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:14:50PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Cornelius Weiss wrote: i managed to install a debian-base-system from the net-install image on a digital alpha-station255. After the reboot of DI the installation couldn't be finished,