From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 16 19:39:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5165514F00 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA62283; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: Cliff Crawford , Michael Kennett , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Message-ID: <19990917120906.V55065@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37DED232.45307EB2@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:54:42PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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