Hello again,
This is an update. Over the weekend I swapped the DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet
Cards in the two systems, but it made no difference. The card was good, so
it's something in the machine. A deeper investigation revealed this message:
Jul 1 08:55:02 d0osfa vmunix: alt.mod: Cannot configure driver
Not exactly a clear message. Nothing as to what's wrong and why, but, most
likely the core of my problem.
First impulse was to reinstall the driver from the CD. Unfortunately, setld
won't let you install something that is already loaded, and it won't let you
remove kernel components, so that won't work.
Does anybody have any info on "alt.mod" or has anyone seen anything
similar? The systems are both 4100's running 4.0D-PK3, what could cause it
to work on one but fail on the other? Can the working driver on the first
system be copied over the failed driver on the second system? Any other
ideas? I like to know the right way to fix this, but right now work-arounds
would be acceptable.
Jim Fitzmaurice
jpfitz_at_fnal.gov
UNIX is very user friendly, It's just very particular about who it makes
friends with.
-----Original Message-----
From: tru64-unix-managers-owner_at_ornl.gov
[mailto:tru64-unix-managers-owner_at_ornl.gov] On Behalf Of Jim Fitzmaurice
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 11:50 AM
To: Tru64 -unix -managers
Subject: DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet Card.
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 Tue Jul 06 1999 - 18:49:56 NZST