Re: Sun SS20/ Etch network problem

[Emmanuel Kasper <kdev@no-log.org>]

Hello
The problem you have looks like your network card was not detected, or 
the module not loaded.
Try to do 'modprobe lance' to load the module, then if it works you 
should see your card in 'dmesg | grep eth'

Do you know whcih network card do you have ?
In PCI based machines ultrasparc lspci ouputs the content of the pci 
bus. This might also work on your SS20, althought I think is sbus based.

According to this, http://blog.wooyd.org/?p=25, it can be quite 
difficult to use a sparc32 kernel with Etch. I advise you to saty with 
debian stable (3.1)

Manu






Andrew, Chris Mr a écrit :

> Can anybody help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew, Chris Mr 
> Sent: 30 November 2005 10:06
> To: 'Andrew M.A. Cater'
> Subject: Internet-authorised: RE: Sun SS20/ Etch network problem
>
> Andy, 
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Please see the following, in response to your questions:
>
> /etc/network/options is deprecated - perhaps? 
>
> The above files says ip_forward=no spoof protect=yes syncookies=no
>
> What does ifconfig eth0 up do?
>
> This returns: Eth0: Error getting interface flags, no such device
>
> What does the stanza in /etc/network/interfaces look like?
>
> It says:
>
> Primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> cd /lib/modules/<something kernel-related>/net insmod lance.ko
>
> What's the result?
>
> Autocompleted the <something kernel-related> bit, but no NET directory
> below it.  Tried insmod lance.ko, no such file or directory.
>
> It looks like my eth0 hasn't been created, but I'm not sure how to
> rectify that.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
> CJH ANDREW
> chris.andrew485 <AT> mod.uk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew M.A. Cater [mailto:amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: 28 November 2005 19:58
> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Sun SS20/ Etch network problem
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:04:04AM -0000, Andrew, Chris Mr wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > Last night, I downloaded and installed Etch (latest image from the D-I
> >    
>
>  
>
> > page at debian.org) on an SS20 with a Sun Lance network card.  When I 
> > reboot after the first part of the install, I get the message that 
> > 'eth0 is deprecated' or something like that. When I do ifconfig, all I
> >    
>
>  
>
> > see is the loopback address.
> >
> >    
> /etc/network/options is deprecated - perhaps?
>
> What does ifconfig eth0 up do?
>
> What does the stanza in /etc/network/interfaces look like?
>
> Andy
>
>  
>
> > Could it possibly be that the right module isn't getting loaded at
> >    
> boot?
>  
>
> > Alternatively, is it possible to slow the network bit of the boot 
> > process, to give the card sufficient time to get an ip address from 
> > the router?
> >
> >    
>
> cd /lib/modules/<something kernel-related>/net insmod lance.ko
>
> What's the result?
>
> Andy
>  
>
> > Any thoughts appreciated.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> > CJH ANDREW
> > chris.andrew485@mod.uk
> >
> >    
>
>
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