Re: DS-207 network failure

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

Hi,

> Oh no! So the SKnet problems with the 407e can no longer be seen as an
> isolated case. Probably many Synology boxes are suffering from it, and
> I was just lucky with my DS-101g+.

I guess that they have slightly different hardware on some boards, even
though the PCI ID is the same.

> Synology didn't put a ROM onto the board, but just wrote the MAC into
> the Flash ROM. A driver will have to read it from there and set it.
> Probably PPCBoot doesn't know how to do that.
> 
> In altboot it is done by read_mac_from_flash().

Ah.  Thanks!  I saw that our code did that.

> >   Filename '/altboot_sk.bin'.
> >   Load address: 0x100000

> >   _MPC824X > go 100000 nfs:netbsd
> >   ## Starting application at 0x00100000 ...

> Or you are using the wrong load-address. Did you copy&paste from your
> terminal? Then it is definitely wrong. The load-address has to be
> 0x1000000.

I did wonder about that.  If I use 0x1000000, I get a crash, presumably
because the bootp loader from PPCboot loads altboot.bin at 0x100000.

> Looks exactly like Oscar's 407e. Very frustrating. :|

Yes.  I will see if I can find some hints from another sk driver.

Thanks,

J

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