I am having strange problems during the boot of my SPARCStation 4, here is the relevant portion of dmesg:
sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:7d:7f:ff eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE Sending BOOTP and RARP requests............. timed out! After that the boot proceeds as normal and once I log in, I find the network in perfect working order: I can ping, telnet, mount NFS, etc., etc. The network is standard twisted pair with RJ-45 connectors and the Sparc is plugged into a Linksys hub. It isn't surprising that the BOOTP and RARP requests time out, since no one on my net is providing these services, but where does the carrier problem come from? Besides, I think that the carrier is checked by the boot PROM and it evidently passed this check... This problem appeared recently -- it *may* have been caused by the upgrade from slink to potato, or by kernel upgrade to 2.2.13 -- I am not sure. As to the modutils situation, it's getting slightly ridiculous. The binary package modutils is missing the executables. I cannot compile the source myself because gcc 2.95.2 barf on insmod.c (I submitted this as a bug to Debian). And when I tried to install gcc272, it wouldn't install! Viz: Sequence (?-...) not recognized at /usr/bin/dpkg-preconfig line 99. E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (255) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt My next step would probably be uninstall my gcc, reinstall it from stable, and then try again. Oh, well. -- Akor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
