Re: [OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?

[Nick Couchman]

> Awesome! If you can make a note of what you had to do in order to get it 
> to work and post it to the list, I'm sure lots of people will be very 
> grateful :)

I'll go back through and try to reproduce the issues and document how I
worked around it.
> Okay - I missed this as when I was stepping through the installer I 
> didn't bother with any of the networking stuff. However there is 
> definitely a bug here - running tcpdump on the bridge interface shows 
> data packets with junk in them rather than a proper DHCP request, so I'm 
> wondering if OpenBIOS doesn't initialise something in the NIC correctly? 
> Or maybe it's another alignment issue with the the LANCE buffers?
>
> Anyway, I'll take a look but it may take me a little time to figure out 
> what's going on.

Let me know if I can provide any further information.  Sounds like
you've reproduced the issue, but if I can provide any additional help,
I'm happy to do so.

-Nick

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Solaris anyone?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 25/04/11 16:12, Nick Couchman wrote:
> I'll go back through and try to reproduce the issues and document how I
> worked around it.

That's great :)
> > Okay - I missed this as when I was stepping through the installer I
> > didn't bother with any of the networking stuff. However there is
> > definitely a bug here - running tcpdump on the bridge interface shows
> > data packets with junk in them rather than a proper DHCP request, so I'm
> > wondering if OpenBIOS doesn't initialise something in the NIC correctly?
> > Or maybe it's another alignment issue with the the LANCE buffers?
> >
> > Anyway, I'll take a look but it may take me a little time to figure out
> > what's going on.
>
> Let me know if I can provide any further information.  Sounds like
> you've reproduced the issue, but if I can provide any additional help,
> I'm happy to do so.

Okay - I now have a patch which appears to solve the issue here after 
numerous of hours debugging. I'll clean it up and post it to the list in 
a few minutes for you to test.

ATB,

Mark.