On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 04:23:13PM +0200, Geert Lorang wrote: > > > 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)
ISTR the checksum was correct but had some quirk about it - something silly like having the endianess wrong. There's a few people I can ask who might remember. In any case, this is something I should be able to get working. This morning I swapped my ia64 zx6000 workstation (went back to HP) for a C8000. > - The Debian installer initrd only has the e1000 and tg3 network drivers So you are saying we need something else as well? DD's : can the installer also include acenic (tigon 1) driver please? (64-bit PCI-66Mhz card) That should work and is in many of the later parisc Servers. > - 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 :) We would need some small bits of documentation from HP to do that I suspect. (serial port register addresses and any quirks to access them) > 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. Yes - as well as acenic driver and any other NIC drivers (e.g. e100) that we tested in the past. thanks, grant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hppa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100507044807.ga32...@lackof.org