Re: [Netboot] Ethernet Driver on 1.8GHz G5?

[Francois <f.taiani@computer.org>]

Benjamin, Shyamal,

thanks for your help. I've tried again and I've explicitly selected
sungen, but with no success. The strange thing is I do see an Ethernet
device in the pci tree (from /proc/pci):

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~ # cat /proc/pci
<snip/>
Bus 3, device 15, function 0:
  Ethernet controller: PCI device 106b:0051 (Apple Computer Inc.) (rev 0).
    IRQ 40
    Master Capable.  Latency=16.  Min Gnt=64.Max Lat=64.
    Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80400000 [0x805fffff]
<snip/>
------

sungem also gets loaded as a module (along with sungem_phy and crc32):

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~ # lsmod
Module            Size Used by
sungem           37124 0
crc32             5120 1 sungem
sungem_phy       10496 1 sungem
ds               24068 0
yenta_socket     23936 0
pcmcia_core      77076 2 ds,yenta_socket
usbserial        33968 0
usbhid           54272 0
ehci_hcd         37380 0
ohci_hcd         26500 0
usbcore         139380 6 usbserial,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
unix             32408 8
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But I get not network device:

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/usr/bin # ifconfig eth0
ifconfig: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
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I've filled an installation report with this information.

Do you see anything else I could try?

Cheers

Francois

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 07:30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:30 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> >     "Francois" == Francois  <f.taiani@computer.org> writes:
> > 
> >     Francois> I'm now blocked with the Ethernet driver: debian
> >     Francois> installer can not detect automatically which ethernet
> >     Francois> card my G5 is using, so it asks me to pick a
> >     Francois> driver. I've tried sungem, sungen_phy and bmac, with no
> >     Francois> success. Debian installer brings me invariably back to
> >     Francois> the driver menu.
> > 
> >     Francois> Does someone know which driver I should use? Within Mac
> >     Francois> OS X, I only know that I'm using the "built-in" ethernet
> >     Francois> card, with no extra info.
> > 
> > I don't have exactly the same machine as yours, but here is what I
> > have when booting from the Debian 2.6.8 kernel (*not* the d-i kernel)
> > on a dual G5 (PowerMac7,3)
> 
> All recent Apple machines have a sungem.
> 
> Ben.