People,
My apologies for the delay in sending the summary. My many thanks to those
who responded:
Dr. Tom Blinn
Curtis Steinmetz
Leo Angeles
The solution cam from Tom's email, as 4.0E and greater have native support
for the DEGPA in the Kernel. After digging through the GENERIC kernel config
file, I found what I was missing.
I had tried doconfig on its own, sizer, and as usual, due to the number of
layered products we never get a functional kernel. The missing lines where:
# DEGPA: Gigabit Ethernet
pseudo-device alt
I am contemplating a project to document the GENERIC kernel config file, and
emailing it to digital so it can get included in future versions of the O/S.
My little black book is getting too full to hold all the notes on DUX/TRU64
anymore.
There is a lot of hidden usefull information in that single file.
Cheers,
Guy
P.S. The next step is to try this new driver. Back to the CSC.
Guy R. Loucks
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NSW Department of Education & Training
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646 [mailto:tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 2:44 AM
To: Guy.Loucks_at_det.nsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: DEGPA's on DS20's
Here's the scoop from a colleague who wrote the DEGPA driver:
------- Forwarded Message
The driver kit (as on the CD that came with the adapter) will not install
on anything other than V4.0D.
V4.0F has support for the DEGPA integrated into it (i.e., you don't need a
separate driver CD to support it).
We just released V1.0.12 of the DEGPA driver to the patch release. If
this person experiences poor performance on the DS20, the new driver would
improve things dramatically. We might be able to arrange for a
'pre-release' patch to get delivered.
------- End of Forwarded Message
Since the DS20 was NOT supported in V4.0D, you can't install the driver from
the CDROM that comes with the DEGPA, but you don't need it.
If you still have old information from the old kit sitting somewhere on the
system, it needs to be removed. I can't tell from your description whether
you were running V4.0F all along and just added patches, and after patching
the system your DEGPA is no longer recognized, or what you mean by "upgrade"
when you wrote:
> Everything went in the upgrade except the DEGPA. The firmware sees it, the
> OS sees it on boot up, but we can not install the drivers. There is a new
> version of the OSFHWBASE package, which claims it wants the previous
> version.
If you were running V4.0F and just installed patches, then the DEGPA should
still be working, and you should NOT need to add any separate driver kit,
if I understand my colleague's comments correctly.
So, what were you really doing?
Tom
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Received on Wed Dec 22 1999 - 22:45:57 NZDT