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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:54:42 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Cliff Crawford <ze5yr@zone.unixshell.com>
Cc:        Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting?
Message-ID:  <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909132326310.86737-100000@zone.unixshell.com>

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Cliff Crawford wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Michael Kennett wrote:
> 
> | Greg wrote:
> | >
> | > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died?
> | > Mine doesn't know what it is.  Serial number, Ethernet address and
> | > Host ID are all -1.  It does know about its product type, keyboard,
> | > ROM, and memory size.
> | >
> |
> | Craig Dewick (http://www.sunrk.com.au) provides a service for reprogramming
> | the NVRAM in sun4c and sun4m machines. I've not actually used the service,
> | and I am not affiliated with Sun-Ripened-Kernels (but I love the name!).
> 
> You can also do it yourself from the prom monitor by reading the nvram faq
> (linked off of www.sunhelp.org).

Specifically it is at

	http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

for your browsing and/or programming enjoyment.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
http://softweyr.com/                                           wes@softweyr.com


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