Re: Yes, NetBSD still boots on pretty ancient Alphas...

[Istvan Gyenes <igyenes%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 2021. 07. 30. 20:20, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Anyway, the reason the DE205 didn't work when the DE422 was installed is because the DE422 was also configured for that same memory range:
>
> [   1.0000000] depca2 at eisa0 slot 4: DEC DE422 Ethernet
> [   1.0000000] depca2: shared memory at 0xd0000-0xdffff
>
>
> So, you had to devices trying to decode the same address.
I was not clear: I have configured different mem addresses. Here is the 
log when I can not use lc0. (Status says "no carrier" but LAN cable is 
plugged and there is link. If i take out DE422 and reboot, network is OK)

jensen# dmesg
...
[     1.000000] eisa0 at jensenio0
[     1.000000] Compaq QVision 1024/E Graphics Controller at eisa0 slot 
1 not configured
[     1.000000] depca2 at eisa0 slot 4: DEC DE422 Ethernet
[     1.000000] depca2: shared memory at 0xe0000-0xeffff
[     1.000000] le0 at depca2autoconfiguration error:
[     1.000000] autoconfiguration error: le0: address 08:00:2b:3d:48:f1
[     1.000000] le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
[     1.000000] depca2: interrupting at edge (eisa irq 5 trigger)
[     1.000000] ahb0 at eisa0 slot 6: Adaptec AHA-1742A SCSI
[     1.000000] ahb0: interrupting at eisa irq 12 (edge trigger)
[     1.000000] scsibus0 at ahb0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
[     1.000000] isa0 at jensenio0
[     1.000000] lc0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f iomem 0xd0000-0xd07ff irq 
5: DE205-AC
[     1.000000] lc0: address 08:00:2b:9f:fc:8c, 128KB RAM, 2KB window
[     1.000000] attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43
...

jensen# ifconfig -a
le0: flags=0x8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ec_capabilities=0x1<VLAN_MTU>
        ec_enabled=0
        address: 08:00:2b:3d:48:f1
        media: Ethernet manual
lc0: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:2b:9f:fc:8c
        media: Ethernet 10baseT
        status: no carrier
        inet6 fe80::a00:2bff:fe9f:fc8c%lc0/64 flags 0 scopeid 0x2
        inet 169.254.53.226/16 broadcast 169.254.255.255 flags 0
lo0: flags=0x8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33112
        status: active
        inet6 ::1/128 flags 0x20<NODAD>
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0/64 flags 0 scopeid 0x3
        inet 127.0.0.1/8 flags 0
jensen#

> So I have tried some other EISA settings on the DE422 to have both cards in the machine.
>
> One time when I configured with 32K (the default is 64K) surprisingly there were no error message at depca2, but there were no link on the DE205...
>
> [   1.0000000] depca2 at eisa0 slot 4: DEC DE422 Ethernet
> [   1.0000000] depca2: shared memory at 0xe0000-0xeffff
> [   1.0000000] le0 at depca2
> le0: address 08:00:2b:3d:48:f1
> [   1.0000000] le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
> [   1.0000000] depca2: interrupting at edge (eisa irq 10 trigger)
> Interesting!  Did the DE422 actually work??
No :(
> -- thorpej