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Glenn Barry | 1 Aug 2006 12:13
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Re: Excuse my ignorance/Heresy

Hi there,

Can anyone tell me which parts I need to download to start looking at 
the USB source

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-3-0/src/sys/dev/usb/

seems to have all of it, am I missing something?

Thanks

Glenn

Max Matveev wrote:
>>>>>>"G" == Generatrix Dev <Co." <generatrix_vcs <at> yahoo.com.ar>> writes:
> 
> 
>  G>  ...There are many other interesting models too from
>  G> SGI which should be benefited of having working the
>  G> USB Stack, as an example:
> 
>  G>  O2, Octane, Octane2, Fuel, Tezro, Onyx Series, Origin
>  G> Series (with a suitable graphic head), etc...
> 
> The point I was trying to make is that there is no accessible USB
> ports on any of the MIPS machines, O2 and O200 have an "easy" option
> of adding USB devices via PCI card as long as one can find a PCI USB
> hub, I'm not sure if Fuel or Tezro have native PCI slots and getting
> cardcages is a non-trivial excercise since they were never readily
> available on the second hand market. So, you either stuck with O2 or
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cdibened | 8 Aug 2006 04:19
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mec0 Not Active?

Hi!

I just insalled NetBSD 3.0 on my SGI O2.  Everything went well except that
the onboard ethernet conroller, mec0, doesn't seem to be active.  I see no
link or activity lights either on the controller or the hub.  I verified
that the hub port and the cable are fine by attaching to another machine.

I use DHCP and after five attempts, dhcpclient reports: "No DHCPOFFERS
received."  I looked on the router and I see no attached devices on my
local network with the unit's MAC address.

Here is the out put of ifconfig for mec0:
mec0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:69:02:da:7a
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
        inet6 fe80::a00:69ff:fe02:da7a%mec0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

Here is what I see on the console during boot:
NetBSD/sgimips 3.99.21 Bootstrap, Revision 1.2
(martin <at> night-porter.duskware.de, Sat Jun 10 00:24:03 CEST 2006)

devopen: scsi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(0) type scsi file netbsd
[ Kernel symbol table missing! ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
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ober | 8 Aug 2006 05:00

Re: mec0 Not Active?

Yes, I see this time to time on my r10k O2.
My r5k's have no problems.
Occasional mec0: mec_intr: interrupt status = 0x182a0c40
mec0: device timeout

Crime is the bus on the r10k, and I think there might be some work needed 
there as my r10k has never really been that stable.
-Ober

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 cdibened <at> one.net wrote:

> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:19:35 -0400 (EDT)
> From: cdibened <at> one.net
> To: port-sgimips <at> NetBSD.org
> Subject: mec0 Not Active?
> 
> Hi!
>
> I just insalled NetBSD 3.0 on my SGI O2.  Everything went well except that
> the onboard ethernet conroller, mec0, doesn't seem to be active.  I see no
> link or activity lights either on the controller or the hub.  I verified
> that the hub port and the cable are fine by attaching to another machine.
>
> I use DHCP and after five attempts, dhcpclient reports: "No DHCPOFFERS
> received."  I looked on the router and I see no attached devices on my
> local network with the unit's MAC address.
>
> Here is the out put of ifconfig for mec0:
> mec0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        address: 08:00:69:02:da:7a
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sNAAPS eLYK | 8 Aug 2006 05:10
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IP32 supports serial console only

I've finally managed to boot to the NetBSD 3.0 install CD on my O2.
It's a 200MHz R5k
But as soon as I boot to the CD, the Kernel Panics and it tells me
that it only supports a serial console!
Some googling has lead me to this
<http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/NetBSD-SGI-O2.txt> which makes me believe
that I'll need to use a null-modem cable to get a serial console so
that I can install NetBSD. Is this true? Or is there some env variable
I can change? My printenv is thus:
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sNAAPS eLYK | 8 Aug 2006 05:16
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IP32 supports serial console only

I've finally managed to boot to the NetBSD 3.0 install CD on my O2.
It's a 200MHz R5k
But as soon as I boot to the CD, the Kernel Panics and it tells me
that it only supports a serial console!
Some googling has lead me to this
<http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/NetBSD-SGI-O2.txt> which makes me believe
that I'll need to use a null-modem cable to get a serial console so
that I can install NetBSD. Is this true? Or is there some env variable
I can change? My printenv is thus:
     >printenv
     AutoLoad=Yes
     console=g
     diskless=0
     dbaud=9600
     volume=80
     sgilogo=y
     monitor=h
     TimeZone=PST8PDT
     netaddr=192.0.2.1
     crt_option=1
     SystemPartition=pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdist(0)partition(8)
     OSLoadPartition=pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdist(0)partition(8)
     OSLoadFilename=/unix
     OSLoader=sash
     ConsoleOut=video()
     ConsoleIn=keyboard()
     cpufreq=200
     eaddr=08:00:69:02:af:53
     gfx=alive
     videostatus=illegal_env_var
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Fabian Wenk | 8 Aug 2006 12:53
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Re: IP32 supports serial console only

Hello

sNAAPS eLYK wrote:
> I've finally managed to boot to the NetBSD 3.0 install CD on my O2.
> It's a 200MHz R5k
> But as soon as I boot to the CD, the Kernel Panics and it tells me
> that it only supports a serial console!

I guess it is still this way. Did not play around with NetBSD 3.0
myself.

> Some googling has lead me to this
> <http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/NetBSD-SGI-O2.txt> which makes me believe

looks familiar ;)

> that I'll need to use a null-modem cable to get a serial console so
> that I can install NetBSD. Is this true? Or is there some env variable

This is true, at least NetBSD 2.0 did not work with the display.

> I can change? My printenv is thus:
>      >printenv
>      AutoLoad=Yes
>      console=g

According to my "checklist" you need to change this one with:

  setenv console d
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cdibened | 8 Aug 2006 14:19
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Re: mec0 Not Active?

Ober,

Thanks for the info!  I think I have an old PCI ethernet card I can use
for networking instead.

> Yes, I see this time to time on my r10k O2.
> My r5k's have no problems.
> Occasional mec0: mec_intr: interrupt status = 0x182a0c40
> mec0: device timeout
>
> Crime is the bus on the r10k, and I think there might be some work needed
> there as my r10k has never really been that stable.
> -Ober
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 cdibened <at> one.net wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:19:35 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: cdibened <at> one.net
>> To: port-sgimips <at> NetBSD.org
>> Subject: mec0 Not Active?
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I just insalled NetBSD 3.0 on my SGI O2.  Everything went well except
>> that
>> the onboard ethernet conroller, mec0, doesn't seem to be active.  I see
>> no
>> link or activity lights either on the controller or the hub.  I verified
>> that the hub port and the cable are fine by attaching to another
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Izumi Tsutsui | 8 Aug 2006 17:44
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Re: IP32 supports serial console only

3lucid <at> gmail.com wrote:

> Some googling has lead me to this
> <http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/NetBSD-SGI-O2.txt> which makes me believe
> that I'll need to use a null-modem cable to get a serial console so
> that I can install NetBSD. Is this true?

Yes.
(BTW if there is no keyboard, IP32 falls into serial console)

To use serial console, "NetBSD Serial Port Primer" page might help:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/Hardware/Misc/serial.html
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Izumi Tsutsui
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sNAAPS eLYK | 8 Aug 2006 21:04
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Re: IP32 supports serial console only

Hypothetically speaking, I don't want IRIX. So could I just buy a
null-modem serial cable, attach it to another computer of mine with
some "serial console software" and use the O2 as a command-line only
BSD machine?

And on another note, I realize this is the wrong mailling list, but
does anyone know about Debian or Gentoo for the MIPS arch, would it
support a graphical UI?

Thanks! :)
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ozone | 8 Aug 2006 21:10

Re: IP32 supports serial console only

> Hypothetically speaking, I don't want IRIX. So could I just buy a
> null-modem serial cable, attach it to another computer of mine with
> some "serial console software" and use the O2 as a command-line only
> BSD machine?

yes. i've done this with an Indy, makes a nice server, especially in a rack.

> And on another note, I realize this is the wrong mailling list, but
> does anyone know about Debian or Gentoo for the MIPS arch, would it
> support a graphical UI?

the underlying problem is availability of drivers for the proprietary sgi
graphics hardware; if these existed in debian/gentoo, someone would most
likely port them to *bsd (and vice-versa -- granted, i'm ignoring the
potential license issues for simplicity's sake).

so far, only the Indigo gr2 and Indy newport hardware is supported. so
if you want a gui, search EBay for a downgrade :)
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