Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5

[John <johnhedge@gmail.com>]

Disregarding my own instincts to pick the sun/type5/us choice and doing as I was directed by various 'howtos' and picking pc/qwerty/us - it worked! I now have a keyboard that I can interface with :-)

Thanks to you all for your help.

John

PS On to the next challenge - getting my fibre channel card to see my sun hd array.

On 9/20/06, John < johnhedge@gmail.com> wrote:

Roman: Yes the keyboard was working fine before. Having Googled it seems as though this is a known issue when upgrading to 2.6.? and Frans has pointed me to a url which seems to acknowledge it.

Frans: I'm using this Ultra5 as a file server so I'm not running any X. I'm afraid dpkg-reconfigure console-data/Select keym....../type5/us didn't work either.

On 9/20/06, Frans Pop < elendil@planet.nl> wrote:

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 01:55, John wrote:
> Thanks Frans that did the trick for booting into my 2.6.17-2 kernel (I
> must have typed something incorrectly into silo.conf) but I now have a
> totally stuffed sun keyboard!

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-upgrade-to-2.6