Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Cliff Crawford <ze5yr@zone.unixshell.com>, Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Message-ID: <19990917120906.V55065@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:54:42PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909132326310.86737-100000@zone.unixshell.com> <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com>
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On Tuesday, 14 September 1999 at 16:54:42 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. Thanks. There's not much to enjoy there, unfortunately: 1.When I turn on my Sun I get output which looks something like: Sun Workstation, Model Sun-XXXX Series. Type 4 Keyboard ROM Rev X.X, XXMB memory installed, Serial #16777215 Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID ffffffff Invalid format type in NVRAM The IDPROM contents are invalid How can I fix this? (Probably Replace chip) I suppose, since the machine works (with an Ethernet address of 0:0:0:0:0:0 :-), I'll just keep on running it like that. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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