Rene van Valkenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:47:57PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: > > I managed to grab a used Sparc Station 20. It's headless, and I was > > able to install Debian on it through the floppy and NFS. > > > > Now, I'm trying to netboot it and experienced some problems: > > > > - if the sparc is connected to a dumb 10-BaseT hub, eveything works > > fine. > > > > - if it's connected to a 10/100 switch, I get "carrier errors". > > > > Anybody encountered this problem ? > > This sounds to me like a full/half duplex problem. Try setting the switch > (and the sparc) to half duplex. If this works, you might try setting them > both to full duplex. It is my experience that 100mbit autosensing between > switches and suns doesn't work. Best solution is to turn it off.
I cannot control what the switch does... it's not a managed switch. And I don't know how to control auto-sensing from the sun console. Note that once linux is booted, eveything works fine... Phil.
