From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 14 15:56:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C527152E5 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA14457; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA16929; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:43:14 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA04842; Tue, 14 Sep 99 15:54:35 PDT Message-Id: <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:54:42 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Crawford Cc: Michael Kennett , Greg Lehey , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message