On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:23:48PM -0500, Jed Davis wrote:
> 
> I posted this to port-sparc64 about a week ago, but nobody replied.
> So, since I think the sparc port shares the drivers in question, I
> figured I'd see if anyone on port-sparc knows what's going on here:
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get NetBSD on a 143MHz Ultra 1 (that's currently running
> Linux, FWIW), and so attempted to boot the latest NetBSD snapshot I
> could find over ethernet.  The ofwboot.net and kernel are:
> 
> >> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.5
> >> (root@setting-sun.duskware.de, Fri Oct 26 21:19:47 MEST 2001)
> 
> NetBSD 1.5Y (GENERIC) #82: Mon Oct 22 16:24:10 EST 2001
>     mrg@powerofseven.eterna.com.au:/orb/a/obj.sys/GENERIC
> 
> But, when detecting the qec card I have, it seems to hang after
> recognizing qe3, but before printing the address, like this:
> 
> qec0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x20000 vector 4 ipl 2: 128K memory
> qe0 at qec0 slot 0 offset 0x0 rev 1 address 08:00:20:82:5c:42
> qe1 at qec0 slot 1 offset 0x0 rev 1intr_establish: intr reused 7c4
>  address 08:00:20:82:5c:42
> qe2 at qec0 slot 2 offset 0x0 rev 1intr_establish: intr reused 7c4
>  address 08:00:20:82:5c:42
> qe3 at qec0 slot 3 offset 0x0 rev 1
> 
> ...and stops there.  Since I've read in the archives for this list
> that the qec/qe driver has had problems in the recent past, I tried
> booting with the qec physically disconnected.  This got me all the way
> to trying to mount the root filesystem from le0, except that the RARP
> query fails; the corresponding link light on the ethernet switch is
> off at this point, which might have something to do with it... the
> relevant boot messages here are:
> 
> ledma0 at sbus0 slot 14 offset 0x8400010: dma rev 2
> le0 at ledma0 slot 14 offset 0x8c00000 vector 21 ipl 6: address 08:00:20:82:5c:42
> le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
> [...]
> root on le0
> mountroot: trying msdos...
> mountroot: trying cd9660...
> mountroot: trying lfs...
> mountroot: trying nfs...
> nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam)
> revarp failed, error=51
> mountroot: trying ffs...
> no file system for le0
> cannot mount root, error = 79
> 
> 
> So does anybody know if I'm missing some important detail, or I need a
> newer kernel, or I need an older kernel, or in general why this isn't
> working?

What switch is connected le0 ?
Maybe try to connect it to a hub, and the hub to the switch ?

I've netbooted a Ultra/1 recently, with le0 connected to a cisco 3500.
No problems ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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