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Okay Yet MORE Xkernel questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean G A Johnson)
Fri Jun 16 15:17:02 1995
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
cc: martin@enws99.EAS.ASU.EDU
Reply-To: dean@franklin.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1980 13:47:05 +1130
From: Dean G A Johnson <dean@netaxs.com>
Hello all,
First to recap:
I have a 486dx33 linux box running version 1.2.8 of the kernel
I am trying to set up a sun 3/50 as a diskless xterminal using the Xkernel
package.
I have a NE2000 10baseT card in the Linux box and a 10baseT transceiver
connected to the aui port of the Sun.
When everything is connected link light on the transceiver and the what I am
assuming is the link light on the NE2000 card both light up. I am also
making the assumtion that these lights being on means that the cable is good.
When the sun boots I get the message:
EEPROM: Using RS232 A port.
At this point I hit L1 A forcing the sun into monitor mode.
Then, I type b le(0) telling it to boot from over the ethernet.
I get the messages
Boot: le(0,0,0)le
Requesting Internet address for 8:0:20:1:A3:CE
And I get the funky little twirling '\' that sits there slowly twirling for all
eternity...
While this is going on I followed the advice on the people on this list and
I did a cat /proc/net/dev with the following results:
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
lo: 0 0 0 0 0 529 0 0 0 0 0
ppp0: 33 0 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0
ppp1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ppp2: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ppp3: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
sl0: 58963 0 0 39918 0 85594 0 0 82593 215 0
sl1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
sl2: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
sl3: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 0 13589 0 27178 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yeah, yeah I know my slip connection is up but the interesting thing I think is
eth0 which is the device name for the card. I do not know what the drop
column is supposed to mean. I also don't know what the fram column means.
One thing that I did notice was that the drop and frame stats would increase
every time I cat'ed /proc/net/dev.
I tried, again as suggested by people from the mailing list, to run tcpdump
to see if anything interesting was happening on the line. I envoked tcpdump
in the following manner:
tcpdump -i eth0
The results were:
tcpdump: listening on eth0
And that was it. When I did a CTRL-C I got this:
0 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
Hmmm this does not sound good.
Does anyone out there have a clue as to what the problem is here?
One thing that maybe a clue is this.
After putting this card in the Linux box it ask you if you want to boot from
the network whenever the machine is rebooted now. I noticed that the IRQ # and
address in this message are different than the IRQ and address found be
the autoprobe. Is this a symptom of the problem?
Thanks a bunch for all the help so far and thanks in advance for your help
with this.
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-dgaj
