SUMMARY: DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet Card.

From: Jim Fitzmaurice <jpfitz_at_fnal.gov>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 12:29:59 -0500

                                SUMMARY: DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet Card.

Sorry it took so long to summarize but I wanted to be sure everything was
working properly before I posted a summary. I had some trouble setting up my
route tables.
        To briefly discuss the problem I had two identical 4100's, I installed a
DEGPA Gigabit Ethernet card in each one. One worked fine the other
continually rebooted if I tried to enable it.

        Hats off once again to Dr. Blinn (and his trusted colleague) for coming
through.

        Though several e-mails I was able to get the system to recognize and enable
the new card. The solution was to use my old /usr/sys/conf file and add the
"pseudo-device alt" statement at the end, and rebuild the kernel, instead of
booting genvmunix, running sysconfig -c alt, and then rebuilding the kernel.
        Apparently the error "vmunix: alt.mod: Cannot configure driver" had no
effect on the actual driver installation since the card is working fine,
pings, ftp, telnet. After all the discussion we had about de-installing the
driver, reinstalling the driver, kernel building etc... It turned out to be
something as simple as that.

        I have attached the e-mail conversation below as it is a plethora of useful
information and it might help someone out in the future.

Received on Wed Aug 04 1999 - 17:30:57 NZST

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