Re: SunBlade 100 and add-on ethernet card

[Bob Van Cleef <vancleef@microunity.com>]

I installed Solaris 8 on one of the systems.  It reported two
ethernet interfaces, hme0 and eri0.


On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Bob Van Cleef wrote:

> 
> Anyone have any clues on this one?  My project is dead in the water
> unless I can activate the second ethernet card.
> 
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bob Van Cleef wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have a Sun Blade 100 running debiab linux 2.4.10.  If I install a second
> > 10/100 ethernet card it fails to boot.  It gets to the initialization of
> > NET4.0 and crashes with the error:
> > 
> > PCIO serial driver version 1.52
> > su(serial) at 0x1fe020003f8 (tty 0 irq 12,7eb) is a 16550A
> > su(serial) at 0x1fe020002e8 (tty 1 irq 12,7eb) is a 16550A
> > clock_probe: Cannot find timer chip
> > 
> > If you take the card out and reboot, you see:
> > 
> > PCIO serial driver version 1.52     
> > su(serial) at 0x1fe020003f8 (tty 0 irq 12,7eb) is a 16550A
> > su(serial) at 0x1fe020002e8 (tty 1 irq 12,7eb) is a 16550A
> > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4                                
> > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> > Starting kswapd                                        
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> 
> 

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