Re: linux/alpha eb164 ethernet problems

Brett McCormick (brett@speakeasy.org)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:15:02 -0700 (PDT)

It turned out that I needed to use a dos program to set the interrupt
on the card. Now the ethernet works fine, but there are new problems.

I can't seem to use fdisk to partition the disk. The first time I
ever got far enough to use fdisk it worked, but every other time after
that it dies with the error "/dev/sda: can't seek". It also prints
some kernel messages (which appear in the log on vc3) "unaligned
trap". I don't have them up right now but when I see them again I'll
send them to the list.

is it true that since I have the ARC console I can't use BSD labeling
(minlabel)? that does seem to work, but the machine just crashes a
little while afterwards..

On Fri, 26 July 1996, at 13:48:05, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> To offer any useful help, you will have to send more info, such as the
> output from "dmesg" pertaining to the card detection at boot, and also
> any errors that the card driver has logged when you have tried to use
> it. Also, the output from "cat /proc/net/dev" and "ifconfig" is useful.
> Check the number of interrupts in "cat /proc/interrupts" for the card
> as well.

Since the net wasn't working, I couldn't nfs mount the installation
tree. to my surprise, there was no cat on the root disk, nor any
other program that I could use to look at the proc files.

> I am also surprised that the wd80x3 wasn't detected at all. Are you
> sure you were using a kernel that has the wd80x3 driver built in?
> Do you have the box set up far enough to do kernel builds, or are you
> trying to install over the ether connection (and hence stuck...)?
> If you can do kernel builds I imagine we can sort out your wd problems
> as well.

It isn't set up at all, yet... :)

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