Michael,
You are probably running into the problem with the tulip driver on the
2700WG.
No fix exists for this at the current tie despite a lot of effort by a
number of people - 
What happens is the bootloader in the qube correctly configures the
onboard nic and fetches the 
Kernel from the bootserver - it then runs the kernel - which hangs, and
you see the slow blinking.

A work around however does exist -
Put a 3com 3c509 ,905 - whichevers the pci one, and get the modified
install disk (if you're not usuing it already).
Put card in, start boot on the qube - with network in the onboard
interface - it will load the kernel as previously, once it reboots
itself to start the downloaded kernel, swap network to the 3com nic and
it should perform the rest of the install. (observable on the lcd)

Of course the 3com nic must remain in the box to be the network
interface and throughput on the nic seems to be limitted to about
800KB/s despite being a 100b card - but it'll be alive.

There is some stuff in the archives about this too.

My 2c ($AU) about 1.4c US worth
Regards
Ray Dekens


-----Original Message-----
From: port-cobalt-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-cobalt-owner@NetBSD.org]
On Behalf Of Michael Holzt
Sent: Wednesday, 5 January 2005 1:27 AM
To: port-cobalt@netbsd.org
Subject: Trying to get NetBSD running on a Cobalt Qube1 (2700WG)


Hello everybody,

you now have the opportunity to show a debian/gnu linux developer the
power of netbsd :-) But seriously: I'm trying to get some sort of
unix/linux running on a Cobalt Qube1 (Model 2700WG). This is tricky on a
machine without a serial console, and all my tries with linux failed.
Therefore i decided to tryout NetBSD. I found the rescue cd, downloaded
and burned it and then bootet from it. 

But it does not seem to work either: The Qube does netbook the NetBSD
Kernel and after that the link led of the network adapter starts
blinking in a very slow speed (say 3 seconds on and 10 seconds off or
somethink like this) but 
nothing else happens.

Any idea what i could do? I really would like to give NetBSD a chance.

Regards
Michael


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