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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:31 am    Post subject: failed to load eth0 -- Sun Ultra 5 Reply with quote

:( BIG TIME :(

I"m unsure of what happened because all I did was change to a new router and rebooted the box, now it fails to load eth0.

Failed to start netmount.. Failed to start sshd

dmesg | grep eth shows

eth0: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIQ) 10/100BaseT Ethernet and mac id
eth0: Auto negotiation successful, link still not completely up
eth0: Auto negotiation successful, link still not completely up
eth0: Auto negotiation successful, link still not completely up
and 6 more times.

I need serious immediate help on this, i'm really freaked... :(

Erik
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

>>> UPDATE <<<

I didn't delete this post because I found out what the problem was.


The Cisco-Linksys WRT54G 802.11g wireless router is NOT compatible with Sun Happymeal cards, in searching google, I found several instances of people running Solaris and other OS on Ultra's with this card and having issues with it not working at all with this router. And myself and all these people were not on a wireless connection at the time, it was direct wired to router.

So, basically, dont buy that router, i've emailed linksys and i'm returning it for a Buffalo or Netgear... bleh 8O
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:55 pm    Post subject: Having same problem Reply with quote


indeed... I was having the same problem a few weeks back. The only solution I found is to force happymeal falling back to 10-Half.

This is probably due to a good feature of WRT-54G: the 5 FastEth ports of WRT-54G can autosense MDX/MDXI, i.e. it detects if your ethernet cable is straight-through or cross-overed. This has been proved to be useful: I don't need to change cable when switch the WRT-54G uplink back and forth between ADSL modem and other upstream hubs.

Perhaps it was this auto MDX/MDXI sensing confused itslef and/or HAPPYMEAL. And there is no way (as of the firmware I'm running) to force the Speed/Duplex/MDX settings of the WRT-54G LAN ports.

I won't return my WRT-54G, it's a stunning little box running Linux. There are published ways out there on the net to burn your own customized version of Linux into it. So eventually you will be able to build an all-in-1 box of your own with:

- wireless AP,
- 4 port switch,
- 1 port uplink with software PPPoE dialer,
- firewall and DMZ,
- DHCP,
- DNS/bind,
- extensive logging (the logging capability of Linksys firmware is a bloody joke)
- IDS (if you really want it),
- 802.1q VLAN if someone write drivers (the hardware is VLAN-aware)
- and more if you can squeeze it into the 2MB flash and 16MB RAM.

Very interesting.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup, HME and Cisco don't play nice together. But that's ok, you have an ultra5 so you can put a different card which doesn't blow goats (say, a nice PCI Intel e100) in it instead :P
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