SPARC Networking Failure (Was Re: [TriLUG] Debian Bigots (was Re: Noise))

Jeff Bollinger jeff01 at email.unc.edu
Mon Jul 29 10:59:31 EDT 2002


Thanks so much!  That worked well.  Too bad I had to wade through a 
bunch of flaming bullsh!t to get to it.  :)  As a side note, I could not 
get the Debian CDs to boot, but aliasing eth0 to hme0 worked perfectly.

Thanks again!

Jeff

Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 17:13, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 16:58, John F Davis wrote:
>>
>>>-- Ok first response after taking offense.
>>>
>>>heh. what a macaroon.
>>
>>Yep, that's what I thought about you. :-)
>>
>>
>>>Mandrake piggy backed itself onto Red Hat.  Red Hat quit supporting Sparc.
>>>So, what's Mandrake to do about Sparc?  You think they port the code?
>>>I doubt it.  They most likely get it from Suse (if Suse supports it) or
>>>they get it from Debian.   For what its worth, Sun has pumbed money into
>>>Debian.  The Debian server is a dual Ultra 60.
>>
> 
> Since I arguably know more about Linux/SPARC than the majority of you,
> let me jump in and clear the air:
> 
> Mandrake isn't getting anything besides the occasional fix from Debian
> or SuSE. Besides, their distribution is several revisions behind current
> (has not been updated since mid-year 2000). This would put it about in
> line with Debian stable for SPARC. To allude that Mandrake (or Debian,
> SuSE, Slackware, RedHat, etc, etc) is merely rebranding another
> distributions work is mere flamebait. Mandrake seems content to claim
> SPARC without continuing development on it.
> 
> There are several active SPARC distributions at this time. Debian
> continues to support SPARC, although, they default to a 2.2 kernel.
> Slackware has officially dropped it, but an independent project called
> Splack is keeping it alive, although it doesn't look terribly active.
> SuSE is slightly more active than Mandrake with regards to SPARC, but
> not by much. Rock Linux has a relatively recent SPARC port attempt, as
> does Gentoo and PLD. Red Hat has SPARC officially on "hiatus", although
> there is a project currently porting the RHL 7.3 tree over to SPARC,
> called Aurora (I'm the project leader).
> 
> Now, I'm not going to get into a flame war over which one of the above
> you should use. To be frank, I don't care. If you expect me (or anyone
> to care) which distribution you're using, you're missing the point. If
> Debian makes you giddy, run it. If SuSE is your thing, go for it. If
> Mandrake makes you ill, don't use it. Its one thing to say "I'd
> recommend using Debian because its SPARC tree is much better maintained
> than Mandrake", and another to troll on its topic. Mandrake is not his
> problem.
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> Check your /etc/modules.conf, make sure that you have: alias eth0 sunhme
> 
> I've got a U10 running Aurora right here, I should be able to help you
> debug this problem.
> 
> ~spot 
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Jeff Bollinger
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