Subject: Re: Problems with quad ethernet card
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: de SAINT LEGER Rodolphe <rslr@free.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/02/2002 01:02:38
> 
> >  When the Sparcstation5 boots, no problems, everything works fine.
> >  However, the Ultra-1E freezes during boot, when printing information
> >  about the card...
> 
> 	Is this an SBus QFE card that you're using, and is it the same 
> card that you've moved from one machine to the other?
> 

No, this card works fine in my SS5. I've swapped the card from the SS5 to the U1.
The two machine runs netbsd-current

> >  qec0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x20000 vector 4 ipl 2: 128K memory
> >  qe0 at qec0 slot 0 offset 0x0 rev 1 address 08:00:20:86:a2:a0
> >  qe1 at qec0 slot 1 offset 0x0 rev 1 address 08:00:20:86:a2:a0
> >  qe2 at qec0 slot 2 offset 0x0 rev 1 address 08:00:20:86:a2:a0
> >  qe3 at qec0 slot 3 offset 0x0 rev 1
> 
> 	Hmm.  Weird.  I've got a Twinhead Twinstation 5G (SPARCstation 
> 4/5 clone) with an SBus QFE installed, and mine seems to get past 
> this point just fine:
> 

My SS5 display the same thing as the U1 as 1 exception, it doesn't freeze during the
qe3 display... :(

> 
> 
> 	My problem is that there is no support in the OS (well, at least 
> in NetBSD/sparc, I don't know about NetBSD/sparc64) for QFE cards, 
> outside of NetBSD 1.5-CURRENT, and I'm having troubles upgrading my 
> system from 1.5.2-REL to 1.5-CURRENT.
> 
> 	What version of NetBSD do you have installed on these machines?

This is netbsd-current, the sources are supped from the april, 24th

> 
> 	I would say "not yet".  I don't know too much about your setup, 
> but based on the above, I'd be willing to say that you might have a 
> bad card.  Have you tried swapping in a different card?

The card works fine in the SS5, all the interfaces works...
However I didn't try it under solaris.

About the U1, it boots in diskless(hopefully, le0 works :) ) and has serial console
The SS5 (will boot in diskless) is standard, except that I took the cgsix that was in the U1 to put it in the SS5 (to be able to use Xinemara)

Rodolphe