[Aurora-sparc-user] Using a different NIC during install on sparc32 (SparcStation20)

[Martin Andersen]

Anyone?  I've done a fair bit of Googling on this topic, and the mailinglist 
archives turned up nil on the subject.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:57:22 +0100 (CET)
From: Martin Andersen <martin.andersen at ieee.org>
Reply-To: Aurora user discussion <aurora-sparc-user at lists.auroralinux.org>
To: aurora-sparc-user at lists.auroralinux.org
Subject: [Aurora-sparc-user] Using a different NIC during install on sparc32
    	(SparcStation20)


Hi,



I've repeatedly tried to perform an install on my SS20 using the first port on a 
quad-interface sbus card instead of the built-in happymeal (hme0 under Solaris); 
unfortunately to no avail.

>From looking at the kernel output I see no evidence of the interfaces being 
detected; they are successfully initialized in Debian and OpenBSD (as qfe[x]) -- 
so I suspect the driver isn't being included in the kernel image.

For the record, I've devalias'ed the 'qfe0' interface to 'net' and 
netbooted successfully from it into the installer.


I've tried various tftp images -- the most recent being from June 30th, 2006 -
obtained from: (these were the most recent ones I could find, after scouring all 
relevant Aurora mirrors.)

http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/linux/fedora/aurora/build-2.0/sparc/os/images/tftp32.img

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4299169 Apr 12  2006 tftp32.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4298963 Apr 14  2006 tftp32.img.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4143085 Jun 30  2006 tftp32.img.2

martin at overkill ~ $ md5sum /home/diskless/tftp*
21bbb2efeb3df0f689c688eef7125bd7  /home/diskless/tftp32.img
7ba7eb29f8b4867d75ec8de4bfb7e850  /home/diskless/tftp32.img.1
00a0ab8cf46191ae213c494dee664bdc  /home/diskless/tftp32.img.2


As there isn't (to my knowledge) a free VT to work on during install, I was also
not able to manually insert the relevant kernel module (assuming it is 
included) and bring up the interface that way.

So this begs the question (as I doubt I'm the only one who'd rather not use 
the onboard 10BaseT port): is it possible to work around this issue -- or, 
better yet, will the AuroraLinux installer include an option to select 
which interface(s) to use during install (an option which both Debian and 
OpenBSD provides.)?


Regards,

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