Hi Chuey --

If the lights on the NIC are not even turning on, I'm guessing that 
the bootstrap processs isn't getting very far at all. The NIC is one 
of the really big problems the rest of us are having with our boxes. 
The EEPROM for the onboard NIC on these Qube 2700 WG boxes requires 
some funky PCI fixup code in order to work (correct me if I'm wrong 
folks, but that's my understanding of it). That's how the Cobalt OS 
uses the NIC just fine -- by applying this fixup code which allows the 
NIC to properly function. Dennis C and I have tried a few different 
kernels with the PCI fixup code applied and we still didn't have any 
luck with this box. That's why Lucien and a few other folks are hoping 
that somebody that has NetBSD loaded on a Qube 2700 would throw up a 
ghosted image of the hard drive, so we can load it on our boxes 
(mainly becasue the Cobalt OS on these boxes suck and the packages are 
so out of date that it's not even funny). I believe that only one user 
on the list has managed to successfully get NetBSD working on a Qube 
2700 WG box, but I have not had any success contacting that user. 
-Brandon-

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:53:25 -0700
  "Brandon Shiers" <brandons@wyoming.com> wrote:
> Hi Chuey --
> 
> If the lights on the NIC are not even turning on, I'm guessing that 
> the bootstrap processs isn't getting very far at all.  
> The NIC is one of the really big problems the rest of us are having 
> with our boxes.  The EEPROM for the onboard NIC on these Qube 2700 
> WG boxes requires some funky PCI fixup code in order to work 
> (correct me if I'm wrong folks, but that's my understanding of it). 
>  That's how the Cobalt OS uses the NIC just fine -- by applying this 
> fixup code which allows the NIC to properly function.  Dennis C and 
> I have tried a few different kernels with the PCI fixup code applied 
> and we still didn't have any luck with this box.  That's why Lucien 
> and a few other folks are hoping that somebody that has NetBSD 
> loaded on a Qube 2700 would throw up a ghosted image of the hard 
> drive, so we can load it on our boxes (mainly becasue the Cobalt OS 
> on these boxes suck and the packages are so out of date that it's 
> not even funny).  I believe that only one user on the list has 
> managed to successfully get NetBSD working on a Qube 2700 WG box, 
> but I have not had any success contacting that user.  
> -Brandon-
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:43:34 +0000
>   chuey <looking@sexykula.com> wrote:
> > Hi Brandon
> > 
> > I left it like that for good ten minutes.  The lights on the NIC do 
> > not light up.  
> > 
> > The box itself works great when booted w/ the original hd w/ linux 
> > on it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Chuey
>