Dear all
a few days ago I asked:
> I have just installed 4.0B on one of our OEM produced
> Alphas (Alpha PC64 275MHz). On booting the DE450 Turbo
> PCI 10 ethernet card is not detected. Although I also
> installed new firmware, I know this isn't the problem
> because I have upgraded the firmware on other machines
> and did not have any problems rebooting the existing
> OS (3.2d).
>
> This is the 2nd time this has happened - on the first
> machine the supplier replaced the DE450 (because we
> thought it was broken!) and the machine rebooted fine
> (with new firmware and 4.0B).
>
> Any suggestions ?
Thanks to:
David W Lloyd <dwl_at_cs.strath.ac.uk>
Dr. Tom Blinn <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
for taking the trouble to reply.
Tom's simple suggestion was to reboot on the /genvmunix
kernel which fixed the problem straight away. The full install
procedure is supposed to use the generic kernel but somehow
the newly rebuilt kernel wouldn't detect the card.
I have installed 4.0B on 3 identical machines:
#1: Found network card, but reported checksum error. Power cycling
did not help. Replacing card fixed the problem!
#2: Network card not found. Rebooting on generic kernel worked.
Rebuilt kernel using doconfig and everything is fine.
#3: Network card found, worked as expected!
I guess the detection for this card is maybe a bit "sensitive".
Some extra info: show config and show dev both list the network
card as expected. All machines did this. Firmware requirements
for DU4.0x is V4.5 for these machines, we have V4.5-5 (from our
OEM).
Thanks again
Ian
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Received on Thu Feb 20 1997 - 10:53:59 NZDT