On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:43:51AM -0500, CiAsA S'Nuey Boark wrote: > Hi, > I have a couple of quick questions. I have recently purchaced an alpha > pws500a. I finally managed to get debian installed on it, but I seem to be > having trouble with the network. > Could this be some sort of full/half-duplex problem? Perhaps you can set the mode of the ethernet card in the SRM console?
> > I've read throught the documentation for the network source in the linux > kernel souce documentation (only for the kernel that potato shipped with > though, i havent had a chance to look through the documentation for the 2.4 > kernel series... yet). I couldn't find much info helpfull, only for boot > options if you want to use the coax connection. > > Are there known problems with the ethernet cards on pws500a (driver is > de4x5), or can i just chalk this one up to being jumbled around in shipping > too much? Well, my PWS500au didn't have any problem talking to a 10mb hub, and now doesn't have any problem talking to a 10/100 switch. > > Now for the second part, going by the compaq page: > http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/aseries/techspecs.html > i see that the workstation uses ecc memory. I've done a quick search on the > net for prices (i would like to upgrade by about 256M) and the prices seem to > be equal to regular SDRAM. My question is: Will the alpha support 'generic' > ecc ram, and if so, at what speeds (100, 133...). If not, does anyone know > of a nice (fairly cheap) online shop to purchase some ram at. Try ebay. I got 6 dimms (PC100 ECC, 256 MB) at $34 each. This was about a month ago, and I remember the seller didn't sell his whole lot. I just love seeing this: Linux version 2.4.15-pre4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)) #3 Tue Nov 13 21:38:54 CET 2001 Booting on Miata using machine vector Miata from SRM Command line: ro root=/dev/sda1 video=matrox:vesa:0x11E,fv:80 memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 236 memcluster 1, usage 0, start 236, end 196607 memcluster 2, usage 1, start 196607, end 196608 freeing pages 236:384 freeing pages 818:196607 reserving pages 818:821 pci: cia revision 1 (pyxis) On node 0 totalpages: 196607 zone(0): 196607 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/sda1 video=matrox:vesa:0x11E,fv:80 ncr53c8xx=tags:64 HWRPB cycle frequency bogus. Estimated 499784057 Hz Using epoch = 1900 Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 994.44 BogoMIPS Memory: 1542856k/1572856k available (2165k kernel code, 28112k reserved, 658k data, 352k init) Perhaps you can contact him? ( whitetoe AT aol.com ) It's generic PC100 ECC memory, BTW. I think I remember reading somewhere PC66 ECC should also work, and PC133 ECC will almost certainly also work. > > I understand most people wont just have this info sitting in their head, so > if you dont know, but have some links to some info that might just be > helpfull, I sure would appreciate it. > Good luck with your Alpha - I love mine! Jurriaan -- You can die before you get old New Model Army - 125 MPH GNU/Linux 2.4.15-pre4 on Debian/Alpha 64-bits 990 bogomips load:0.00 0.00 0.01
