> Actually I'm not the author of this tip... Geert Lorang told me to do > this, but I don't have any serial card around. Anyways, it's great to hear > it works. Maybe now I can convince my boss to buy one for me to do these > tests! :-) >
Few weeks ago I also succeeded in installing my C8000. Some knowledge I can share: - The Intel e1000 doesn't work due to bad EEPROM checksum (not really the case, driver thinks so) - The Debian installer initrd only has the e1000 and tg3 network drivers - If you buy a PCI Serial card make sure it's a real serial card and not a "multidevice card" eg parallel + serial, this will get recognized by the parport_serial driver and afaik you can't have a serial console on this; Also make sure it's Universial PCI or 3,3V; - In the installation initrd and in the 'real' kernel (after installation) the module pata_sil680 is missing, when you recompile your kernel (include CONFIG_PATA_SIL680) you are able to use IDE devices - I think 'we' have a newer revision of the C8000 with some (new) unsupported serial ports. I think they get recognized as 0x000AD 0x077 but I'm not sure of this, nor I'm able to write a device driver :) I added a (64 bit) Broadcom netXtreme gigabit network card (tg3 driver) and a moschip 9835 serial card to my C8000, with this hardware I was able to do a netinstall. If you can get the pata_sil680 module in the initrd you should be able to install it from (IDE) CDROM. If needed I can provide you this, but we should get this into the Debian HPPA upstream. Regards, Geert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
