Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476
On Friday 17 March 2006 01:17, Randall Wayth wrote:
> The output of prtconf is attached. I've also attached a chunk of the
> syslog which shows the ethernet cards. This particular system (for
> reasons unknown to me- it was a hand-me-down) has about 7 ethernet
> ports and a dozen scsi interfaces. One bunch of ethernet ports is a
> group of 4- a "quad"? So if a SunQuad is 4x Quattro HME, then perhaps
> the answer is yes- this system has a SunQuad. But I'm really not sure.
Thanks for the info. From looking at the dmesg and prtconf output and
looking at the kernel source code a bit, it indeed looks as if the
SUNW,qfe sbus devices actually are "Happy Meal" NICs and thus need the
sunhme driver instead of sunqe.
I've sent a message to the debian-sparc list [1] asking for confirmation.
Thanks again for your patience with this and for your valuable feedback.
I'm very happy that the quick hack to detect sbus devices has now been
confirmed to work in d-i with 2.6 kernels.
Next question is: would you be willing to do a full install to see what
(if anything) needs to be done to get the sbus devices (especially the
scsi controller) supported in the initrd?
You don't necessarily need to overwrite your current installation for
that, a 700MB empty partition is sufficient. There is however always a
minor risk that an existing installation could get damaged by a bug or an
error.
Cheers,
FJP
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/03/msg00047.html
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