Re: Problems netbooting from SparcStation 20

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Rene van Valkenburg <R.vanValkenburg@itsupport.hvu.nl> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:47:57PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > I managed to grab a used Sparc Station 20. It's headless, and I was
> > able to install Debian on it through the floppy and NFS.
> > 
> > Now, I'm trying to netboot it and experienced some problems:
> > 
> >  - if the sparc is connected to a dumb 10-BaseT hub, eveything works
> >    fine.
> > 
> >  - if it's connected to a 10/100 switch, I get "carrier errors".
> > 
> > Anybody encountered this problem ?
> 
> This sounds to me like a full/half duplex problem. Try setting the switch
> (and the sparc) to half duplex. If this works, you might try setting them
> both to full duplex. It is my experience that 100mbit autosensing between
> switches and suns doesn't work. Best solution is to turn it off.

I cannot control what the switch does... it's not a managed switch.
And I don't know how to control auto-sensing from the sun console.

Note that once linux is booted, eveything works fine...

Phil.