[rescue] VFE VME on SGI, WTF?

[Thomas Gallaway]

Last thing I remembere is that you actually have to install the drivers 
for it. Also what
I found out the hard way is that on a r10k system the VFE card runs 
very unstable.

But then again this was long time ago. Hinv did show the VFE card.

-- Thomas

On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:49 PM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> I have an SGI Challenge L, and a dual 100baseT vfe board for the 
> Challenge's
> VME bus.
>
> What I don't have is a clue.
>
> The board is in the Challenge, in the left-most VME slot.  Two LEDs on 
> the
> board, in the back, near the top, are illuminated and glow steadily.
>
> hinv doesn't seem to see the board from the PROM monitor, even after an
> `update`.
>
> hinv from IRIX doesn't see it, either.
>
> There's no "vfe*"entry in the /hw/net directory, although et0 is there 
> and
> works.
>
> I've done a
>
> 	# cd /dev
> 	# /dev/MAKEDEVS alldevs
>
> which did not produce any error messages I could detect, though it 
> produced
> a lot of output.
>
> Then I did an
>
> 	/etc/autoconfig -n
>
> which showed that the kernel is "current".
>
> I've searched the IRIX 6.5 disks for likely software to install, and 
> found
> nothing.
>
> I've googled many combinations of words, but found no installation
> instructions, though I have found a lot of complaints about how poorly 
> the
> SGI VME vfe board works.
>
> Can someone swing a clue-by-four in my direction?  Nothing could be too
> basic....
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Shel
> --
> Sheldon T. Hall
> shel at cmhc.com
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