I just installed Debian 2.2r3 Potato on a 4cpu E450, but cannot get any of the two ethernet interfaces to work. Both just repeats these messages continuously:
eth0: Link down, cable problem? eth0: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode eth0: Link down, cable problem? eth0: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode eth0: Link down, cable problem? The link is up and negotiated to 100baseTX-FD according to the switch in the other end. I've tried replacing the connection to the switch with a crossover cable to a PC, getting the same results: The PC claims to have negotiated 100baseTX-FD, but the Sparc disagrees. I also tried forcing the switch port to all combinations og 10/100 and FD/HD without any effect. Both interfaces were working using Solaris 2.6 before I started installing Linux. I notice the HAPPY MEAL ethernet controller doesn't generate any interrupts (the box is full of scsi controllers, but has only one disk at the moment): cat /proc/interrupts 0: 682248 + timer 3: 16358 sym53c8xx, sym53c8xx 4: 60 su(mouse), sym53c8xx, sym53c8xx, HAPPY MEAL (PCI) 6: 60 sym53c8xx, sym53c8xx 9: 0 su(kbd) 11: 18 floppy 12: 60032 serial(sab82532) 15: 0 power I don't know if this is as it's supposed to be on a sparc. Please excuse my total lack of knowledge of the platform. Up until now, I've just been happy running Solaris without ever bother learning anything about the system below. Time to change that, I guess :-) I though maybe it could be just a bad default transceiver choice, but how the heck do I change that? mii-tool and ifconfig just agree that the operation isn't supported for their respective ioctls: ifconfig eth0 media 100baseTX SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported /usr/src/mii-tool/mii-tool eth0 SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported So, I found an external transceiver and tried with that: Still no go. Now I'm starting to feel a bit stupid (and realise that i'ts probably not just a feeling...), but I would really appreciate it if someone would care to enlighten me. This cannot be that hard, so I'm pretty sure I'm overlooking some simple solution. (I would be grateful if any answers were CCed me. I don't think my subscribtion has gone through yet. But I will try to follow the thread on the archive pages) Bjørn
