On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Steven Stillaway wrote:
> I have an old sparc1 that I am trying to set up. When I boot it up it
> tells me that its ethernet address is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff and its HostID is
> ffffffff.
>
> When running the boot tests it says "The IDPROM checksum is incorrect" and
> also says "Internal loopback test -- Did not receive expected loopback
> packet."
>
> Does anyone know what is going on here? Is the network card dead?
The NVRAM battery is probably dead. You need to buy a replacement and then
fill in the data that was on the chip. Go to this URl for more info:
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
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