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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:27:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Cliff Crawford <ze5yr@zone.unixshell.com>
To:        Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909132326310.86737-100000@zone.unixshell.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909140317.LAA35015@laurasia.com.au>

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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



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