From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 14 5: 1:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [150.101.89.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CD6151A2 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 05:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@atdot.dotat.org) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.9.3/8.7) id VAA02182; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:28:32 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org> Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:28:32 +0930 (CST) Cc: bsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu, heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 14, 99 12:30:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey 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. Get yourself to an "ok" prompt, then: ok setenv diag-switch? false ok 0 f mkp ok 8 0 20 AA BB CC AABBCC mkpl ^D^R ok boot This will set your ethernet address to 8:0:20:aa:bb:cc and your hostid to 0xaabbcc. Save this away somewhere, because you'll need to type it again every time you power-cycle the system :-) - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message