[SunRescue] SS2 Problems

[Dave McGuire]

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    -Dave McGuire

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, BuzzBomb wrote:
>Ok.  I've been lurking for awhile, but now I need a little bit of help.
>I have a Sun SparcStation 2 that I've had for awhile (and never used)
>and it seems to me that the built-in ethernet is fried.  :(  I know
>PC hardware quite well, but don't have much experience with the Sparc
>hardware.  When I turn the machine on, first of all, it tells me:
>
>[...]
>Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff.
>
>IDPROM contents are invalid.
>
>--
>
>Is this bad?  It proceeds to test the memory in the machine and probe
>the bus...finally, it tries to boot from the network and I get this
>response before it dumps me into the monitor.  (I do know a little bit
>about these machines...just not as much as I would like.)
>
>[...]
>Boot device: /sbus/le at 0,c0000   File and args:
>Internal loopback test --
>Did not receive expected loopback packet.
>Can't open boot device.  (Ok...I know what THIS means.  ;)
>
>--
>
>Now, the box has the standard AUI port with no transceiver connected to
>it.  (FYI: I get the same response with a transceiver connected.)  Can
>anyone offer some advice?  For all I know I just have the configuration
>wrong, but that "internal loopback" failure seems to be bad.  Thanks in
>advance!
>
>Ken
>buzzbomb at netunlimited.net
>
>
>
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