From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 13 20: 0:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589BD14CE8 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:00:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA17983; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:30:31 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA26225; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:30:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:30:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: BSD Bob Cc: heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Message-ID: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37CFC28D.7063AF7A@post.rwth-aachen.de> <199909031630.MAA01804@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909031630.MAA01804@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>; from BSD Bob on Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 12:30:29PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 3 September 1999 at 12:30:29 -0400, BSD Bob wrote: >> BSD Bob wrote: >> >>> Hello.... >>> >>> I have been running FBSD for about 5 years, and am relatively comfortable >>> with it on x86 machines. But, I also run several sparcs of various >>> flavors, at home. What is the status of the FBSD Sparc port? >> >> Bob, >> >> The FreeBSD Sparc mailing list has been a bit quiet recently - people on >> holiday or too busy etc. I can only really speak for myself here, since I'm >> not in regular contact with anyone else on this list, but it seems that most >> people (me included) are still getting clued up ie. looking for doco. I've >> read a lot of the "The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD lite >> operating system" book and have got hold of the Sparc hardware manual plus >> other docs from Sun about writing device drivers which contain hardware >> details. By the way, I'm talking about the Sparc32 port, NOT Ultrasparc! >> What would help me (and maybe others on the list) is an answer to the >> following questions: > > I run veddy dinosaur sparcs, so the 32bit is fine for me. > >> 1) Is it better/more sensible to use the NetBSD code or even Linux stuff to >> find out how to do things or is it better to get your own docs and solve the >> problem yourself? Personally, I'd much prefer to "roll our own", although >> it's probably far more work and considerably more difficult. However, we'd >> all learn more that way. Anyone have any ideas on this? > > My preference would be to look at 1) the 4.4BSD code for the sparc > release (anyone got a source license from SCO that could touch base > on that?), I can help there. I plan to have an SS5 in the near future, and I'll try to bring 4.4BSD up on that. Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, ROM, and memory size. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 13 20:17:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from laurasia.com.au (lauras.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627E614D5D for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@laurasia.com.au) Received: (from mike@localhost) by laurasia.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA35015; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:17:10 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from mike) From: Michael Kennett Message-Id: <199909140317.LAA35015@laurasia.com.au> Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? In-Reply-To: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 14, 1999 12:30:27 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:17:10 +0800 (WST) Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg wrote: > > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? > Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and > Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, > ROM, and memory size. > Craig Dewick (http://www.sunrk.com.au) provides a service for reprogramming the NVRAM in sun4c and sun4m machines. I've not actually used the service, and I am not affiliated with Sun-Ripened-Kernels (but I love the name!). Hope this helps! Mike Kennett (mike@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Sep 13 20:28: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from zone.unixshell.com (zone.syracuse.net [209.2.141.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4C215138 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ze5yr@zone.unixshell.com) Received: from localhost (ze5yr@localhost) by zone.unixshell.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA98634; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:27:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ze5yr@zone.unixshell.com) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:27:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Crawford To: Michael Kennett Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? In-Reply-To: <199909140317.LAA35015@laurasia.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Michael Kennett wrote: | Greg wrote: | > | > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? | > Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and | > Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, | > ROM, and memory size. | > | | Craig Dewick (http://www.sunrk.com.au) provides a service for reprogramming | the NVRAM in sun4c and sun4m machines. I've not actually used the service, | and I am not affiliated with Sun-Ripened-Kernels (but I love the name!). You can also do it yourself from the prom monitor by reading the nvram faq (linked off of www.sunhelp.org). -- cliff crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ -><- air yang tenang jangan disangka tiada buaya To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 14 5: 1:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [150.101.89.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CD6151A2 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 05:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@atdot.dotat.org) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.9.3/8.7) id VAA02182; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:28:32 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org> Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:28:32 +0930 (CST) Cc: bsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu, heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 14, 99 12:30:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? > Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and > Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, > ROM, and memory size. Get yourself to an "ok" prompt, then: ok setenv diag-switch? false ok 0 f mkp ok 8 0 20 AA BB CC AABBCC mkpl ^D^R ok boot This will set your ethernet address to 8:0:20:aa:bb:cc and your hostid to 0xaabbcc. Save this away somewhere, because you'll need to type it again every time you power-cycle the system :-) - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 14 6:47: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu [152.1.207.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A0D14BE2 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) Received: (from bsdbob@localhost) by weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA12705; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:52:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdbob) From: BSD Bob Message-Id: <199909141352.JAA12705@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? In-Reply-To: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 14, 1999 12:30:27 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > My preference would be to look at 1) the 4.4BSD code for the sparc > > release (anyone got a source license from SCO that could touch base > > on that?), > > I can help there. I plan to have an SS5 in the near future, and I'll > try to bring 4.4BSD up on that. Sounds like a first step. > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? > Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and > Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, > ROM, and memory size. The nvram faq at sun3arc.krupp.net (the cannonical sun3 archives) would be where I would start. There was, at one time, a script on the net that would take some values you fed it and write you the idprom info needed to get the machine back up. Alas, I have lost that url. There is also an eepromscript that, once up, will read the idprom info, and store it on a disk file, and reread it back from disk, should the nvram ever die again. I have not tried it but it is supposed to work. My 3/80 box has a dead nvram, and I used that technique to get it back up a couple of times. Make sure you keep the numbers around somewhere, for reference. Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 14 10:10:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from sushi.level3.net (gdffw1.Denver1.Level3.net [209.244.1.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A80F1150C8 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from liam@level3.net) Received: from BUGS (dhcp-10-6-98-131.quantum1.oss.level3.com [10.6.98.131]) by sushi.level3.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA22190; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:03:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <004501befed3$702e2720$8362060a@BUGS> From: "Liam Slusser" To: "Mark Newton" , "Greg Lehey" Cc: , , References: <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org> Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:06:06 -0600 Organization: Level3 Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Do you know if this method will work with the newer sun4u? (Like an Ultra 2 or Ultra 10?) liam ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Newton To: Greg Lehey Cc: ; ; Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 5:58 AM Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? > > Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and > > Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, > > ROM, and memory size. > > Get yourself to an "ok" prompt, then: > > ok setenv diag-switch? false > ok 0 f mkp > ok 8 0 20 AA BB CC AABBCC mkpl > ^D^R > ok boot > > This will set your ethernet address to 8:0:20:aa:bb:cc and your hostid > to 0xaabbcc. > > Save this away somewhere, because you'll need to type it again every > time you power-cycle the system :-) > > - mark > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org > but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton > ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 14 15:56:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C527152E5 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA14457; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA16929; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:43:14 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA04842; Tue, 14 Sep 99 15:54:35 PDT Message-Id: <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:54:42 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Crawford Cc: Michael Kennett , Greg Lehey , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cliff Crawford wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Michael Kennett wrote: > > | Greg wrote: > | > > | > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? > | > Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and > | > Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, > | > ROM, and memory size. > | > > | > | Craig Dewick (http://www.sunrk.com.au) provides a service for reprogramming > | the NVRAM in sun4c and sun4m machines. I've not actually used the service, > | and I am not affiliated with Sun-Ripened-Kernels (but I love the name!). > > You can also do it yourself from the prom monitor by reading the nvram faq > (linked off of www.sunhelp.org). Specifically it is at http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html for your browsing and/or programming enjoyment. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 16 10:33:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.uigv.edu.pe (mail.uigv.edu.pe [200.10.71.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FC914DA3 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:31:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juancito@mail.uigv.edu.pe) Received: (from juancito@localhost) by mail.uigv.edu.pe (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01150 for freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:28:30 +0500 (GMT) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:28:30 +0500 (GMT) From: Juan Taza Villa Message-Id: <199909160728.MAA01150@mail.uigv.edu.pe> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org subscribe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 16 19:39:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5165514F00 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA62283; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: Cliff Crawford , Michael Kennett , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Message-ID: <19990917120906.V55065@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:54:42PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 14 September 1999 at 16:54:42 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Cliff Crawford wrote: >> >> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Michael Kennett wrote: >> >>> Greg wrote: >>>> >>>> Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? >>>> Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and >>>> Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, >>>> ROM, and memory size. >>> >>> Craig Dewick (http://www.sunrk.com.au) provides a service for reprogramming >>> the NVRAM in sun4c and sun4m machines. I've not actually used the service, >>> and I am not affiliated with Sun-Ripened-Kernels (but I love the name!). >> >> You can also do it yourself from the prom monitor by reading the nvram faq >> (linked off of www.sunhelp.org). > > Specifically it is at > > http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html > > for your browsing and/or programming enjoyment. Thanks. There's not much to enjoy there, unfortunately: 1.When I turn on my Sun I get output which looks something like: Sun Workstation, Model Sun-XXXX Series. Type 4 Keyboard ROM Rev X.X, XXMB memory installed, Serial #16777215 Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID ffffffff Invalid format type in NVRAM The IDPROM contents are invalid How can I fix this? (Probably Replace chip) I suppose, since the machine works (with an Ethernet address of 0:0:0:0:0:0 :-), I'll just keep on running it like that. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 16 20: 5:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA3CE14DDB for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA62452; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:35:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:35:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Newton Cc: bsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu, heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Message-ID: <19990917123512.A55065@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org>; from Mark Newton on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:28:32PM +0930 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 14 September 1999 at 21:28:32 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? >> Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and >> Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, >> ROM, and memory size. > > Get yourself to an "ok" prompt, then: > > ok setenv diag-switch? false > ok 0 f mkp > ok 8 0 20 AA BB CC AABBCC mkpl > ^D^R > ok boot > > This will set your ethernet address to 8:0:20:aa:bb:cc and your hostid > to 0xaabbcc. > > Save this away somewhere, because you'll need to type it again every > time you power-cycle the system :-) Thanks, that did the trick. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-sparc Fri Sep 17 14:31:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.uigv.edu.pe (mail.uigv.edu.pe [200.10.71.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D520415067 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cesar@mail.uigv.edu.pe) Received: by mail.uigv.edu.pe (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA02872; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:28:14 +0500 (GMT) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:28:14 +0500 (GMT) From: Cesar KMo Prueba Message-Id: <199909171128.QAA02872@mail.uigv.edu.pe> X-Authentication-Warning: mail.uigv.edu.pe: nobody set sender to cesar@mail.uigv.edu.pe using -f To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Reply-To: cesar@mail.uigv.edu.pe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: IMP/PHP3 Imap webMail Program 2.0.9 X-Company: Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega X-Originating-IP: 200.37.250.2 Subject: Subscribe Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org subscribe freebsd-sparc ------------------------------------------------------- Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega UIGV http://www.uigv.edu.pe Lima - Peru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message