Re: SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?
Thus spake Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, the > problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on sort of > garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am not sure > which)). Good rescue. The config defaults in any recent 2.2 series kernel (definitely go with 2.2.19) should be sane, you'll probably want to build some things as modules instead and remove some of the higher end defaults that do not pertain to your setup and/or needs. SS5's come with the following: a TI MicroSPARC II 70, 85, or 110 MHz or a Fujitsu TurboSPARC 170Mhz. It takes 8 MB or 32 MB fast page mode 5V, 168 pin JEDEC DIMMs, 8 slots for a total of 256MB. Can accept two 50pin (narrow) SCA hard disks using a special drive sled. Be careful though, things can get very toasty in there if you use modern speedy disks. A fast SCSI HBA (aka scsi2). Should be an ESP(something), they use an NCR chip, usually NCR53C9XF. The audio is a CS4231 chip, you may need a special cable to use this, I forget. The NIC should be a sunlance, which is a 10bt. Some systems may sport a SunSwift card. This gives you another SCSI bus and ethernet interface. There's many framebuffers for this and any other sbus sparc. You'll probably have a TGX or GX. Hope this helps. I can elaborate further, if ya need it. -- James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024D/62C2F77D uri: http://oneiros.darkspire.net/ EBB8 AF14 8C43 2F12 7623 irc: EFnet / opn / tietnet C0AA C0AE 56D4 62C2 F77D
Re: SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:49:32PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, | the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on | sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am | not sure which)). | | as of now it is working, but I would like to build a new kernel (it | has one of the 2.2 series) and the problem is that I have no idea how to | configure it. The current kernel is configured properly (scsi works, | metwork works, sound does not work) but it does not use any modules. If you have a kernel-package created kernel, then /boot/config- is the config used for /boot/vmlinuz-. | there is something that looks like current config (of kernel) in /boot | but are there any other ways how to figure out what HW is installed? | Network card, sound card etc... I looked around in /proc but did not | find much useful data... (I am not sure what to look for) Don't recent SPARCs have PCI buses? If so 'lspci' should be a major help. | I have no previous experience with Sun HW so I would appreciate any | help (pointers to docs etc.) Neither do I, as an admin. Would be cool to have one though ... -D
Re: SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:49:32PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, > the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on > sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am > not sure which)). > > as of now it is working, but I would like to build a new kernel (it > has one of the 2.2 series) and the problem is that I have no idea how to > configure it. The current kernel is configured properly (scsi works, > metwork works, sound does not work) but it does not use any modules. Unless you know what you are doing, and are willing to expect some serious stability issues, you'll want to stick with 2.2.x on any sparc32 systems. 2.4.x doesn't work aswell as 2.2.x on this platforma yet. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?
I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am not sure which)). as of now it is working, but I would like to build a new kernel (it has one of the 2.2 series) and the problem is that I have no idea how to configure it. The current kernel is configured properly (scsi works, metwork works, sound does not work) but it does not use any modules. there is something that looks like current config (of kernel) in /boot but are there any other ways how to figure out what HW is installed? Network card, sound card etc... I looked around in /proc but did not find much useful data... (I am not sure what to look for) I have no previous experience with Sun HW so I would appreciate any help (pointers to docs etc.) TIA erik
