Hello --
AFAIK, there is no _released_ Mandrake 7.1 for {Ultra}Sparc. IOW, should I
wait for the official 7.1 to get functional networking on "my" USparc?
Bruno Majewski
Internetworking Specialist / Sp�cialiste d'Inter-r�seautage
AT&T Canada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Stodden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Hydrogen2 USparc: no networking?!?
>
> "Majewski, Bruno" wrote:
>
> > I have managed to install beta 2 of Mandrake 7.1 on this Ultra10
> Creator3D
> > (P/N: 380-0196-01) that was scrounged up at work (no one knows what it
> was
> > used for, no S/W was with it, etc.) and after fighting a bit with X
> > configuration and with the partition table (seperate bugs that will have
> to
> > be reported seperatly), I now have a fast Linux box with a nice big
> screen.
> >
> > But networking doesn't work -- it looks like the NIC was not even
> detected!
>
> You must upgrade to the released Mandrake 7.1
>
> In any case, networking will not work as left by the installer.
> There is a lot you must set up yourself (try linuxconf?). Then you
> must install the missing nfs-clients RPM and use ksysv to make the
> nfs daemon load at boot time.
>
> > When I look into /dev, there doesn't seem to be any NIC detected. No
> "eth0",
> > "eth1", etc. And the NIC Solaris IDs as "hme0" (or is it "hme1" ?)
> isn't
> > there either.
>
> eth0, eth1, etc are NOT Linux devices. Look in /var/log/messages to
> see whether they were set up and run ifconfig in a root terminal
> window to confirm it.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Mandrake Linux.
