Subject: Re: Trouble installing on IBM z50
To: Florian Cramer <cantsin@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
From: Jeff Bolle <jbolle@bucknell.edu>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/01/2003 11:29:36
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I would suspect your network card first. I have a card that I know is
ne2000 compatible but doesn't work on the z50 for whatever reason. I
believe the timing problem you are refering to is the one that messed
with the cf cards so that they weren't recognized and the machine
wouldn't boot, so I don't think that is your problem. See if you can get
another network card and try with that.
Jeff
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 10:19, Florian Cramer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problems installing both NetBSD 1.5.3 and NetBSD
> 1.6 on an IBM z50 with 48 MB RAM, a NE2000-compatible
> 10/100 Mbit 16bit PCMCIA Ethernet adaptor and a 256 MB CF card:
>
> - The installation kernel boots ok & detects the Ethernet card, the
> first installation steps including partitioning/formatting the CF card
> proceed smoothly.
>
> - The installation fails to fetch the installation tarballs. Let me
> specify:
> + Networking parameters are correctly defined, pings to other hosts
> work as they should.
> + The installer manages to open an FTP connection: The prompt of the
> server appears, "250 CWD command successful" appears five times.
> + Next messages:
>
> local: kern-GENERIC.tgz remote: kern-GENERIC.tgz
> 500 EPSV not understood
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (130,133,1,100,188,61)
>
> + The FTP program then opens a binary connection, receives
> kern-GENERIC.tgz, gets stuck at 0% transfer rate and times out
> after a while
>
> - The error is reproducible with various NetBSD FTP mirrors I tried.
> - Timeouts also occur when I try to install by NFS.
> - Outside sysinst, I manage to download small (ASCII) files by FTP,
> but get the same problems with larger (binary or ASCII) files.
>
> Is it possible that I got hit by the timing problems (?) with z50 and
> PCMCIA NICs I read in the archive of this list? If so, is there a
> patched installation kernel for z50?
>
> Sorry if I made some stupid mistake (I'm a NetBSD newbie coming from
> Debian GNU/Linux).
>
> -F
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Jeff Bolle <jbolle@bucknell.edu>