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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:42 am    Post subject: Sun Quad Gigaswift Ethernet Cards (QGE) on Sparc Reply with quote

Hi,

Has somebody knowledge about some kernel module for gentoo sparc to support QGE Cards ??
There's one on x86 (cassini, http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4140b67e)

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's been included in the 2.6.14 development branch upstream.
But 2.6 is a mixed bag on how it works on SPARC kit depending on which machine you have.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:42 pm    Post subject: =] Reply with quote

I have V240 :)

I ran sucessfully 2.4.31 and 2.6.13 so probably 2.6.14 wont be a problem :]
I hope you r right and it will start workin'

I will start compiling 2.6.14 tomorrow and I will write asap =]
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The V240 uses the tg3 driver, it doesn't need cassini.
And last time we successfully booted a 2.6 kernel on one it was extremely unstable.
2.4 kernels work better, though they're not rock-solid stable either, and you'll see less memory when using both memory controllers on SMP-enabled models (move all the memory to just one processor to fix this).
It'll be fixed at some point by upstream (David Miller) when he gets his hands on one for some time.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got 8GB so loss of 600MB is not a problem ;)
Yes my quad on board with TG3 works fine but I got 2 more quads QGE PCI and that's the matter.

I didn't have ability to work on that yesterday so I start just now...

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

YESSS!
I made new kernel and after few problems with one more enumeration eth devices i got 12 interfaces :D

It workz :]

Thnkz gust4voz, your info was bullseye.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

chuckpl wrote:
YESSS!
I made new kernel and after few problems with one more enumeration eth devices i got 12 interfaces :D

It workz :]

Thnkz gust4voz, your info was bullseye.


that just leaves one question... why on earth do you need 12 gigabit interfaces in one machine ?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chuck,

Is your V240 a single or dual proc box? I've got a dualie that won't make it to userlane in 2.6 Can you email me your config? squash@g.o please.

Thanks!

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Squash:
Yes my Fire is dual proc and 8x1GB RAM

No problem, I will send u in a minute :] <<<<< I think u misspelled your e-mail address...://

Toady:
Why gigabit ? Cose investing in 10/100 has no future...
Why 12 ? Cose I need that machine as ourmon probe which can monitor many segments of my network :]

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm, the reality is not as pink as it looked like ;]

After trying to configure my new qge interfaces with ifconfig i get "Killed" message ://

It looks like next case need some digging...
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Chuck,

g.o = gentoo.org :)
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ohh, I'm used to click on email shortcut, not to thinkin' bout it :twisted:
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

still nothing...://
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn, that's so resistant material ^^

It ended now in putting quads to Dell PowerEdge 2600 and configure cassini on Debian :]
I will use my V240 to make backend...

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry for digging up such an old post, but has anyone had any luck with these boards? I have a QGE UTP (FRU 501-6522) that I am having a hard time getting to work. I am guessing the answer will be that they don't, but it is worth a shot.

emerge --info:
Code:
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 sparc64 sun4u
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r6
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mtune=ultrasparc -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-mtune=ultrasparc -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://bigbox.ih.lucent.com/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ "
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="sparc X alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups dba dbus dlloader dri eds encode esd fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gd gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk2 hal imlib isdnlog jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nfs nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl syslog tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_mach64 video_cards_ati video_cards_sunffb"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS



lspci reveals:
Code:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83065 [Saturn] 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller (rev 30)
03:01.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83065 [Saturn] 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller (rev 30)
04:02.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83065 [Saturn] 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller (rev 30)
04:03.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83065 [Saturn] 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller (rev 30)
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello ;]

Heh, reading that topic moved me to that past times... hyhyhy that was fun...

I never used these cards, the only suggestion which I got in mind is to go into kernel config and look in the possibilities carefully (I dun have kernel right now before my eyez).


Good Luck
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