[Aurora-sparc-user] Ver 2.99 - sunhme not found?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 22:07 -0400, Charles Tryon wrote:
> 
> Here's an odd one....
> 
> I just completed an install of the latest 2.99 release on a Sun
> UltraSPARC 2 Creator.  The install went pretty well, other than the
> fact that the VGA video adapter I found (forget the name) and have
> used to replace the toasted Creator card seemed to be a bit unstable
> and would crash at random points in the install.  Installing in Text
> mode fixed that problem.... ;-)
> 
> I used the NET boot and install from a NFS image on another server in
> my network, which reduces the dependency on CD images.  Obviously, the
> sun Happy Meal Ethernet adapter (sunhme) card was working in order to
> facilitate the install.  Life is grand.....
> 
> ...until I reboot at the end of the install.  Then, for some reason,
> when the system reboots, it complains that, "The sunhme does not
> appear to be present, delaying initialization."
> 
> Any ideas why this adapter would work just fine during install, but
> then not initialize when the newly installed kernel tries to boot up?

OK, this is a weird one, I might have screwed something up in the SMP vs
UP kernels. Check to see if the sunhme driver is in the installed
kernel:

rpm -ql kernel-smp |grep sunhme

Ultra 2s are usually SMP, so the SMP kernel be should present. If its
not an SMP system, run the query and grep against kernel instead. If
there is a driver, you should see the sunhme.ko file with path. If not,
it will return blank.

I'll check this on my end, but its very likely that you'll get to it
before I will (just got back from a week of offline vacation, 10,000+
emails to go through).

Also, let me know what kind of video card you've got in that Ultra 2.
Since Ultra 2 is SBUS only, running lssbus should fill in the blank.

~spot