Jonathan Gray wrote:
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 04:38:36AM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
Hi,
Is anyone have been able to get the redirect console working on the Sun
2100 M2 or not? Either the Ethernet management port or the serial port.
The Ethernet port only work when OpenBSD is nor running, as soon as it
half way loaded, it knockdown the port itself and the console port via
the serial port doesn't work either.
I tried all variation in BIOS that I could think of with no results.
That's the share sh*t of Sun on these boxes.
Look like I can't do remote install tests on that box.
Am I crazy or it's not possible to get it to work?
Any clue would be extremely welcome as I am loosing the hair I have left.
Or at a minimum, a simple yes or no would even be welcome so that I know.
Thanks
Daniel
nfe needs to do a bit of a dance to see if the PHY has already been initialised,
going by changes made by NVIDIA to the Linux driver.
If you disable nfe in your kernel you should be able to use it as a management
port, just not as a normal system Ethernet port.
Just a side note. The management interface is connected to the bge
instead and, oppose to the nfe, in BIOS where you can disable only one,
or both of the nfe, you have no choice for the bge, you disable both to
use one for the management as the share doesn't work well!
The serial problem can perhaps be fixed by tinkering with the bios, but I've
never used one of these machines...
The serial so far can be use either as management, or console, but not
both at the same time. I haven't been able to anyway and I tried a lots
of variations, even some not logical! I couldn't do it anyway, not yet.
