Hello managers,
I have a problem, two 4100's both running 4.0Dpk3. Yesterday I installed a
DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet Card in one of them, after updating the appropriate
associated firmware. I installed the Drivers, booted from genvmunix, ran
sysconfig -c alt, and then doconfig. I copied over the new kernel rebooted
and it came up fine. the following messages were displayed during startup:
Jun 30 09:40:32 d0osfb vmunix: alt0 at pci2 slot 5
Jun 30 09:40:32 d0osfb vmunix: alt0: DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet Interface,
hardware address: XX-...
Jun 30 09:40:32 d0osfb vmunix: alt0: Driver Rev = V1.0.4, Chip Rev = 6,
Firmware Rev = 11.3.2
No problems.
Today, I tried to install a DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet Card in the other
machine. Followed the same procedure exactly the same way. I even installed
the card in the same PCI slot. I updated the firmware, installed the
drivers, booted from genvmunix, ran sysconfig -c alt, and then doconfig. The
only difference comes here. (Totally unrelated, but here's the details.)
After this system was built a DLT drive was added, along with a new SCSI
adapter. The new SCSI adapter was put on a separate PCI Channel from the
disk drive for obvious reasons, but this configuration puts it higher in the
chain and makes it think its SCSI2 but all my AdvFS file systems were built
on SCSI2. So I edited the conf file and changed SCSI2 to SCSI3 and SCSI3 to
SCSI2. So that way my AdvFS file systems are still on SCSI2 and the DLT
shows up on SCSI3 like it was configured. Not a problem I've rebuilt the
kernel before, I know this works. I copied over the new kernel and rebooted.
I know my editing of the conf file worked because all my AdvFS file systems
were found and mounted, but then I got these message:
Jul 1 09:52:10 d0osfa vmunix: alt0 at pci2 slot 5 alt0: DEGPA Gigabit
Ethernet Interface, hardware address: XX-...
Jul 1 09:52:10 d0osfa vmunix: alt0: Driver Rev = V1.0.4, Chip Rev = 6,
Firmware Rev = 11.3.2
Jul 1 09:52:10 d0osfa vmunix: - Attached
The system then halts and goes back to the console prompt. I tried
Rebuilding the kernel again, but to no avail. To get the system back up I
used the old kernel, prior to the card install and the driver, and that
works. But no DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet Card. Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks in advance and as always I'll summarize.
Jim Fitzmaurice
jpfitz_at_fnal.gov
UNIX is very user friendly, It's just very particular about who it makes
friends with.
Received on Thu Jul 01 1999 - 16:51:19 NZST