[SunHELP] Dead TPE/RJ45 network port

[Damian Walker]

Quoting Peter Stokes's message of Today:

> Depending on which shutdown you pick up from your PATH env variable list,
> one of these will get you to ok
> 
> shutdown -h now

Being normally a Linux type person, I tried this the first time I wanted
to shut down the machine and it didn't quite understand what I
meant--must be the "wrong" shutdown--so next time I'll try the other
command line instead:

> shutdown -i0 -g0 -y

Thanks for that.

> If you have no keyboard connected, you will need a serial connection either
> to a PC with hypertrm or similar or a plain serial terminal (eg vt220). The
> normal way to break to ok with a serial terminal is to send the 'break'
> signal (which I do not think you can do with the PC)

I connect to it using minicom on a Linux machine.  I've just checked and
sending a break signal is easy, right there on the menu.  So let's power
this thing up and have a try... Bingo!  Thanks very much, this has
worked a treat.  Not only that, but without changing anything, the
network interface is active!

The help system provided at the "ok" prompt has told me what my problem
was.  I had connected the cable after having booted the Sparc. Since it
auto detects which network interface you want to use by the presence of
a cable, and there was no cable or hub attached at boot time, it
disabled TPE.

When I've got further through the 242 pages of the service guide, and
the 1414 pages of the Solaris admin guide, I shouldn't have to ask this
type of question :-)

-- 
Damian - http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/dwalker/ - UPDATED 11/7/2001