sandPoint 8240 booting: Not reconginzing ethernet card

[Mark A. Greer]

Also, do yourself a favor and move up to the hhl 2.0 version and make sure you
set the switch setting correctly.

Mark
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Matt Porter wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 03:33:20PM -0700, Ravindranath wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having problems with ppc linux booting on my
> > sandpoint 8240..
> >
> > I have built the kernel with the ethernet driver(3COM
> > Fast ethernet)..For this I changed config file and
> > turn on the ethernet driver in the config file. The
> > target still doesn't boot..
> >
> > I have attached the boot log. The significant error
> > seems to be "No network devices available".
>
> Look before that message.
>
> > Some more questions:
> > 1. I have setup the dhcp server my host m/c(redhat6.2)
> > with the instructions form Mvista cdk1.2 docs.Also the
> > instructions ask for setting fixed ip address for the
> > target in /etc/dhcpd.conf file. Since I have set up
> > the dhcp server, I am not sure what should be the
> > fixed-address in the /etc/dhcpd.conf file.
>
> It's arbitrary.  This is where you get to exercise those creative
> juices and assign an IP address and name to the target.
>
> > 2. Also do we need to pass the ip address as part of
> > the boot arguments..If so how??
>
> Not if you set up the dhcpd.conf properly.  RTFM the HHL 1.2 docs and/or
> "man dhcpd.conf".  There's several excellent examples in the man page
> itself.  People are writing the documentation in the hope that you'll
> read it so do them a favor.
>
> <snip>
>
> > 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] bus 0 dev
> > 15
> >         BAR 0, I/O, size=0x40, address=0xafe380
> >         IRQ 18
>
> Yep, Boomerangs use the 3c59x driver.
>
> <snip>
>
> > 0 3c515 cards found.
>
> Couldn't find a 3c515 since you have 3c59x card.
>
> Configure the '3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support'
> options and try again.
>
> --
> Matt Porter
> MontaVista Software, Inc.
> mporter at mvista.com
>


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