Not that this helps you any, but my Ultra 1 Creator install went without a
hitch in the network portion. However, on the 7.0 beta I couldn't even get
things to install because it couldn't find the cdrom for the second stage
install.
Just thought I'd mention it so that you know that progress is being made on the
sparc port.
Tom Korte
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Majewski, Bruno wrote:
> while I was waiting after Cisco InfoCenter to do its thing, I decided to
> reload Mandrake 7.1b2 on the Ultra 10 Creator 3D and:
>
> (1) by default, on first boot, absolutely no modules are loaded, nor
> does one see any other NICs with ifconfig or netstat.
> (2) /etc/sysconfig/hwconf lists the following networking h/w:
> -
> class: NETWORK
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> device: eth
> driver: sunhme
> desc: "Sun|Happy Meal"
> vendorId: 108e
> deviceId: 1001
> pciType: 1
> -
>
> of course, there is no /dev/eth or /dev/eth0 (or /dev/sunhme, for
> that matter...).
>
> (3) using netconf to try to add an interface, "sunhme" is not shown as
> an available module, only "sunlance" (say what?).
> (4) adding eth0 as an interface and "sunhme" (that I had to "force" by
> typing it manually) in netconf, resulted in the following lines in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Jul 14 15:18:12 localhost kernel: sunhme.c:v1.10 27/Jan/99 David S.
> Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Jul 14 15:18:12 localhost kernel: eth0: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO)
> 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b3:4b:f7
>
> The driver is good, it seems to like eth0... but there is no
> /dev/eth0 !!! (colour me confused)
>
> (5) so my problem seems to be with creating /dev/eth0: how do I do this?
> Is there some weird incantation & secret handshake I should be made aware
> of?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bruno Majewski
> Internetworking Specialist / Sp�cialiste d'Inter-r�seautage
> AT&T Canada
> t�l.: 613.688.4712
> fax.: 613.688.4535
> e-mail / courriel:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Majewski, Bruno
> > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:18 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: [Cooker] Hydrogen2 USparc: no networking?!? * PART DEUX*
> >
> > *** RULE 1 *** never, never reply to an e-mail before your first cup
> >
> > *** RULE 2 *** let your brain rev up after coffee has been ingested before
> > replying to said e-mail
> >
> > *** WARNING *** I'm still in dire need for cafeine, possible brain farts
> > ahead.
> >
> > Woops -- mea culpa. My previous e-mail was not exactly the best answer.
> > Though, I still wonder: since there is no official 7.1 USparc Mandrake, do
> > I have to wait to get functionnal networking???
> >
> > So, now with a better answer: I did look for configured networking
> > interfaces using both DrakConf and a console (ifconfig, "netstat -i" and
> > "ls -CaF /dev") and absolutely no interfaces were configured. During the
> > install, I was able to flip to another VC (can't do that once Linux is
> > installed, booted and running -- what gives?) and did not see any
> > references to networking hardware being detected. It looks like 7.1B2's
> > installer can't detect what comes with the USparc 10/Creator 3D, either
> > because it is unfinished or because it is broken (hey, it's beta software,
> > it's to be expected).
> >
> > LinuxConf was of no help -- there is no "detect new hardware" function.
> > Doing a MAKEDEV might be the trick but I have no clue what major/minor
> > numbers I should use.
> >
> > *** INSERT MINOR BREAKTHROUGHS HERE ***
> >
> > #1: Doing an "lsmod", it looks like the good networking module ("sunhme")
> > is loaded. I'm saying the "right module" because when I tried to use the
> > machine the first time, Solaris mentionned "hme0" as a net interface
> > during bootup. And said module is present in /lib/modules/2.2.16-5mdk/net
> > (sunhme.o).
> >
> > #2: Doing a "modprobe -c | grep hme" and a "modprobe -c | grep eth" reveal
> > the following line: "alias eth0 sunhme" (which is in /etc/conf.modules,
> > duh). But then, when I noticed that networking was not working, I added
> > eth0 using DrakConf (or NetConfig, whatever) because no NIC was listed.
> > Hmmm... should I do a MAKEDEV for eth0, then?
> >
> >
> > Bruno Majewski
> > Internetworking Specialist / Sp�cialiste d'Inter-r�seautage
> > AT&T Canada
> > t�l.: 613.688.4712
> > fax.: 613.688.4535
> > e-mail / courriel:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > -----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.
