Re: Getting PPP up with a Zyxel ISDN adapter
>>>>> "Knut" == Knut S Åbjørsbråten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Knut> I'm giving Debian on PPC my first go, as my PC's
Knut> power-supply unit started giving out smoke yesterday, and I
Knut> have work I need to get done that requiers Linux.
Knut> I've got a base2.2 install, and need to get the rest of the
Knut> system via FTP, but my ISDN adapter refuses to cooporate, or
Knut> maybe the software does.
Knut> Using either 'pon Telenor' or 'pppd call Telenor' ("Telenor"
Knut> is defined using pppconfig), the modem lights up DTR, DSR,
Knut> RTS, CTS as usual, but does not call the ISP. I can manualy
Knut> send an ATDT command using echo > /dev/ttyS0, but chat/pppd
Knut> does not seem to manage the same...
Whats in the logs (daemon.log or ppp.log, I'm not sure which) ?
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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Re: specific to Hartmut Kuptein
>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip R Jaenke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Phillip> On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 09:17:03AM -0700, Matt Porter Phillip> wrote: >> BTW, I did some searching around and still can't find anything >> that clearly states what architecture a 40P is. Just some >> vague references to them working under Linux. Seems that is a >> 43P is PReP arch then a 40P would be as well. But who am I to >> know what the "P" signifies? Phillip> Lemme do some guesswork real quick here, based off what I Phillip> know. Phillip> The 43P is the successor to the 40P. Therefore, it would Phillip> be a fairly logical assumption to guess that the 40P is a Phillip> 603e, 603, or POWER2 processor system, likely to be Phillip> single to twin processor, with MCA bus. This is based off Phillip> the fact that the RS/6000 43P Power260 is a single POWER3 Phillip> processor in it's workstation incarnation, and up to dual Phillip> POWER3 in it's workgroup server incarnation. The 43P Phillip> Power140 is a single or dual 604e. The 43P Power150 is a Phillip> single 604e. Therefore, I'm guessing that we're looking Phillip> at PReP with only MCA and probably 603 Phillip> processors. Possibly, but highly unlikely, 604eX5's. This is off the top of my head (but reasonably reliable :-). The 40P is a 66MHz 601 based PowerPC, PCI/ISA bus, single processor only model. It was the first of the PCI PowerPC workstations released I believe (43P came out some months afterwards) - because of the 601 its rather slow (in comparison to the 604 based machines that came out soon after). Sincerely, Adrian Phillips
Re: specific to Hartmut Kuptein
>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip R Jaenke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Phillip> On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:12:38PM +0200, Adrian Phillips Phillip> wrote: >> This is off the top of my head (but reasonably reliable >> :-). The 40P is a 66MHz 601 based PowerPC, PCI/ISA bus, single >> processor only model. It was the first of the PCI PowerPC >> workstations released I believe (43P came out some months >> afterwards) - because of the 601 its rather slow (in comparison >> to the 604 based machines that came out soon after). Phillip> I'll buy that, since upon closer inspection, the 'P' Phillip> seems to typically indicate that it's a PCI bus system Phillip> from further investigation. Still haven't found any full Phillip> specs on it. Question remains, is the 601 gonna work? If Phillip> the 601 is byte-for-byte assembly compatible with 603, Phillip> I'd say definitely, but the 601 predates the 603, which Phillip> leads me to believe that there may be 603 instructions Phillip> that aren't on the 601. Somebody have a 601 or specs so Phillip> they can check into this? Again off the top of my head; the 601 was a PowerPC/POWER mixture - it allowed AIX binaries to be taken from a POWER machine to the 601 machine and be run without recompiling. Now, there is a "common mode" compile option still under AIX xlc but without checking the manuals I can't say for sure how it handles the differences between the newer PowerPC and older POWER chips (if at all). I know for a fact that the "standard" info (AIX info) libraries don't have specific information about the processor instructions although the xlc manuals may have more info on this. Regards, Adrian
Re: Linux (or other free OS) on RS/6000-MCA hardware
>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip R Jaenke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Phillip> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:42:16AM -0700, Eric Dobbs
Phillip> wrote:
>> >From http://www.crs4.it/HTML/crs4doc/crs4guide_9.html,
>> describing some old workstations of theirs:
>>
>> IBM 7012 mod. 320H Desktop workstations ... with a multi-chip
>> processor board called SGR 2532, that is Second Generation Risc
>> with a 25 MHz clock and 32 KB of data cache.
>>
>> >From snippets of info elsewhere on the web, descriptions
>> concur on a 25MHz processor. I have no idea if this counts as
>> a POWER2 chip or not. I haven't picked up the box yet, but
>> I'll send more info as I find it.
>>
>> What kind of kernel support exists for MCA hardware right now?
Phillip> Hey again Eric;
Phillip> I cc'd this to debian-powerpc, anyone out there on the
Phillip> list got better information on the 7012 320H? I can't
Phillip> find a shred of documentation! :(
Assuming the 2 320s we have at work are 320H (I'm not sure what the H
means) I believe (90% sure) they are POWER CPUs; basically slower
versions of the 340s which are definitely POWER. Unforetunately I
cannot find a way in AIX to display the processor information.
Phillip> That definitely sounds like a POWER or POWER2 processor,
Phillip> possibly an m68k. There's pretty good MCA support in the
Phillip> 2.2.x kernels currently, but it's still a little broken
Phillip> (or a lot broken! ;) on some specific machines,
Phillip> probably. If anyone's got more information, could you
Phillip> pass it along? Thanks! :)
Don't know anything about Linux on these but from next year I'd be
able to give it a go as these machines are going out of routine.
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
Re: x86'er needs help with an rs/6000
> "Gerald" == Gerald Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gerald> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Alberto Varesio wrote: >> Gerald Turner wrote: > > Forget my first question - a friend of >> mine tugged hard enough on the > plastic ediface to get the >> case open! Yes, sometimes you have to be rude! > > What I >> found was: > > A single PPC module @ 166Mhz (damn!) Maybe you >> can add another one ... sure it is not a 233 ? Gerald> Positively 166 (or 167?!). It's a big icky module that Gerald> looks IBM specific, perhaps specific to only this model of Gerald> RS/6000 (F40) - even if IBM still sells it, I'm sure it'll Gerald> cost lots :-( Without doubt they do, but it will cost an arm and a leg ! Gerald> Speaking of expensive IBM parts, is it possible that the Gerald> board can use regular PC dimms? (FYI, the box has 1996 Gerald> written all over it) ECC ram probably, ie. not cheap :-( Check out Kingston (www.knigston.com ?) who I believe sell IBM memory (or perhaps I should write, memory for RS6000s). Gerald> I finally got into "SMS" (i.e. BIOS) by searching Gerald> comp.unix.aix and finding the F1/F5 keys... The Gerald> not-really-PS2 port is a tablet, the strange ISA card is a Gerald> 128 port asynchronous adapter, and 3 of the 4 drives are Gerald> in hardware raid! Gerald> I'd like to know whether the 128 port controller is Gerald> supported in Linux, anyone? Okay, I am not sure about the following but I believe the 128 port card and 16 port concentrator box are an OEM sold by IBM, as I have seened adverts in an American magazine from another company with boxes that almost identical to the IBM boxes we have (slightly different colours). Whatever, they are (or were) expensive; I believe we payed over 1 Nkr. (about £1000 [pounds]) for each 16 port box. It maybe cheaper buying another solution (unless you happended to get a 16 port box with the machine without noticing it yet :-) Of course, this was from IBM so the prices were probably double what the other company was charging. Gerald> It is running AIX 4.something (exact version scrolls by Gerald> too fast in the little xconsole window during boot)... Too Gerald> bad I don't have any of the AIX installation media - I'd Gerald> really like to check out AIX before trashing it for Gerald> Debian. Try uname -a, that should tell you somewhere in there what patch level its at (I can't remeber exactly now but I think its backwards, so 1 4 would be AIX 4.1). Regards, Adrian
Re: x86'er needs help with an rs/6000
> "Gerald" == Gerald Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gerald> Thanks for the info, I'll keep Kingston in mind but for a Gerald> while 256MB should be fine (if I can get this machine Gerald> running, it'll be a web server - eventually with a Gerald> database running on it...). I probably can get those 16 Gerald> port boxes (the suit who sent me the machine has no idea Gerald> which dusty parts sitting in his closet for 2 years goes Gerald> with the RS/6000) - but until I know the controller can Gerald> work with linux, I don't want to bother - already spent Gerald> $166 US on what I've got so far... What I would so is try searching the web for 128 port controller or 16 port concentrator (that may be the IBM name for them though) and see if there is another company or if it was just my imagination; then take a look and see if they have Linux support (many companies selling serial port solutions support Linux). >> >> Gerald> It is running AIX 4.something (exact version scrolls by Gerald> too fast in the little xconsole window during boot)... Too Gerald> bad I don't have any of the AIX installation media - I'd Gerald> really like to check out AIX before trashing it for Gerald> Debian. >> Try uname -a, that should tell you somewhere in there what >> patch level its at (I can't remeber exactly now but I think its >> backwards, so 1 4 would be AIX 4.1). >> Gerald> I forgot to mention that I don't have any access to the Gerald> installed AIX - no root password, no user accounts - Gerald> luckily SMS didn't have a password set. I'd really like Gerald> to play with AIX (maybe even keep it), but I don't have Gerald> the money to buy the OS. I could configure a PC to have Gerald> the same network route as AIX (changing the IP addresses Gerald> in SMS probably doesn't affect AIX, right?), but I don't Hmm, I'm not sure now; no I don't think so. When you mean you don't have root access; do you mean because of the license question or because nobody can remember it :-) Gerald> have the time nor experience to hack the box over ethernet Gerald> (if it's even possible). With a AIX CDROM or tape you can boot up and import the root volume group and go from there but if you don't have those then it may not be that easy. Gerald> Linux is the goal - Debian of course. Thats where I'm Gerald> stuck right now. I've looked at the so called "redbook" Gerald> from IBM, and it says this machine is PReP and not CHRP Gerald> (unlike the model F50) - but I can't verify that with Gerald> 'bootlist -T' (no login). I havn't been able to find/use Gerald> any firmware boot commands, but I can change the boot Gerald> sequence to floppy first (and only). So far I've tried Gerald> PReP floppies from www.debian.org/~porter/prepdl and Gerald> sid/main/disks-powerpc/current, as well as CHRP floppies Gerald> (though I guess the floppy doesn't work for that arch Gerald> anyway) - they all just hang with no indication of whats Gerald> happened (the logo screen sometimes scrolls up a few lines Gerald> as though some text has been printed, but it must be white Sorry, can't help you here as I'll not have any free RS6000s to play with until early next year when our email server goes out of commission. Gerald> on white!). I've even been able to verify the floppies Gerald> from the AIXish "Service Mode" -> "Service Aids". I'm Gerald> going to give TFTP/NFS a try in the next couple days - but Gerald> disks-powerpc/current doesn't seem to have any TFTP boot Gerald> images :-( Have you tried searching www.rs6000.ibm.com - they have a heck of a lot of info hidden away there (although some maybe hidden behind password protected areas). Regards, Adrian
