I gets a little more interesting..Linux/sparc was working fine for a few days.Now it seems, merely plugging this machine into the network makes thenetwork barely work -- very slow, connections dropped. Even ifI'm just sitting in various installers. Plugging in the wired on board ethernet. apt-get upgrade left Linux failing to boot.Solaris 9 install fails very early, something about newfs failing.I really tried a bunch of manual parameters, besides that itis run automatically.I think 10 is in the mail. (I have 10 onDVD but so far only a CD drive on the machine). I think it's something about the disklabel/partition left by either OpenBSD or Linux. I'm not sure how to get the OBP to the machine, since I can't install Solaris. Not sure the others will do. Let alone the possible need to open it up to enable writing. So, anyway, for now, I have wireless working and am back in OpenBSD.It's a little unfortunate because the Linux stuff was about a third done, now I'll try to complete OpenBSD before going back to Linux to finish. I was surprised how easy wireless was to get working.Granted I had to use the command line and read the man page, butgiven that, not bad. I'm going to try no X on the machine, just ssh. :)Of course, all my file editing will be on Windows and I'll scp files over.Or maybe try NFS or Samba..
Oh, and the OBP is definitely out of date. It's like version 4.6.5 from 2002, when they are up to like 4.10 or so fro 2005. Oh, also, a little complaint about OpenBSD installer. Solaris 9 installer pushes you to have swap first. So then with that in mind, i did that for OpenBSD. But OpenBSD defaults to installing to the first partition, and doesn't let you change that, so with 512meg, 10gig / after it, setup runs out of room installing to swap. Fixed by taking the default disklabel and using a for add and going more with its defaults, instead of what Solaris wanted. For once, I want more manual override..or for setup to notice..and maybe guess there isn't enough space... - Jay $ dmesgconsole is keyboard/displayCopyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.Copyright (c) 1995-2007 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #1427: Tue Aug 28 10:46:40 MDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERICreal mem = 536870912 (512MB)avail mem = 507289600 (483MB)mainbus0 at root: Sun Blade 150 (UltraSPARC-IIe 650MHz)cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (rev 3.3) @ 650 MHz, version 0 FPUcpu0: physical 16K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 512K external (64 b/l)psycho0 at mainbus0: pci108e,a001, impl 0, version 0, ign 7c0psycho0: bus range 0-2, PCI bus 0psycho0: dvma map c0000000-dfffffff, iotdb 962000-9e2000pci0 at psycho0ebus0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Sun RIO EBus" rev 0x01"flashprom" at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configuredclock1 at ebus0 addr 0-1fff: mk48t59ebus1 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Acer Labs M1533 ISA" rev 0x00"dma" at ebus1 addr 0-ffff ipl 42 not configuredpower0 at ebus1 addr 800-82f ipl 32com0 at ebus1 addr 3f8-3ff ipl 43: ns16550a, 16 byte fifocom1 at ebus1 addr 2e8-2ef ipl 43: ns16550a, 16 byte fifogem0 at pci0 dev 12 function 1 "Sun ERI Ether" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7c6, address 00:03:ba:2b:8f:49ukphy0 at gem0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 1: OUI 0x0010dd, model 0x0002"Sun FireWire" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 12 function 2 not configuredohci0 at pci0 dev 12 function 3 "Sun USB" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7e4, version 1.0, legacy support"Acer Labs M7101 Power" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 not configuredautri0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "Acer Labs M5451 Audio" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7e3ac97: codec id 0x41445348 (Analog Devices AD1881A)ac97: codec features headphone, Analog Devices Phat Stereoaudio0 at autri0midi0 at autri0: <4DWAVE MIDI UART>pciide0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE" rev 0xc3: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCIpciide0: using ivec 0x7cc for native-PCI interruptwd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST340016A>wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38166MB, 78165360 sectorsatapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targetscd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <LITEON, CD-ROM LTN486S, Y3S2> SCSI0 5/cdrom removablewd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives)ppb0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Intel S21152BB PCI-PCI" rev 0x00pci1 at ppb0 bus 1ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel S21152BB PCI-PCI" rev 0x00pci2 at ppb1 bus 2unknown vendor 0x10c5 product 0x0017 (class bridge subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x00) at pci2 dev 1 function 0 not configured"TI TSB12LV21 FireWire" rev 0x04 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 not configuredvgafb0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "ATI Rage XL" rev 0x27wsdisplay0 at vgafb0: console (std, sun emulation)usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0uhub0 at usb0: Sun OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1"pcons" at mainbus0 not configuredrum0 at uhub0 port 1rum0: Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528, address 00:17:9a:c3:84:c1uhidev0 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0uhidev0: Sun Microsystems Type 6 Keyboard, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 3, iclass 3/1ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes, layout 33wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0bootpath: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: geom network driver times out on sparc 4.2?Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:31:42 +0000 I have no idea. OBP = "on board PROM"? I'll research this, but not right away. Anecdotally, Linux is running well, been up for a few days, with the same sort of scenarios I was attempting in OpenBSD, just a bunch of ssh/scp/cvs/gcc/ld. Is it possible OpenBSD is sensitive to having the latest OBP and Linux is not? Yes. Is it possible for OpenBSD to lose this sensitivity and work as well as Linux, in this regard? (Far be it for me to suggest that OpenBSD does not work better than Linux in general. I do appreciate the OpenBSD attitude, like the web page with reasons to build your own kernel, every single reason starts with the same discouragement. :) )In this case, Linux == Ubuntu 7.10. Thanks, - Jay > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]> Subject: RE: geom network driver times out on sparc 4.2?> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:54:25 +0100> > > Are you running the latest version of OBP on the system?> _________________________________________________________________> > All new Live Search at Live.com> > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000006ukm/direct/01/
