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Michael | 9 Feb 2005 03:11
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Re: boot26 on R260


Hello,

>> Nothing. To get rid of the page XXX not free messages you'll have to
>> *unplug any modules you don't really need, maybe *rmtidy helps too ( 
>> on
>> my A5000 with 8MB I never got there )
>> Did you try BBBB?
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> No, but I got a clue from reading a BBBB documentation. I got to 
> supervisor
> mode by pressing shift and keypad-*, and switched to a 256 colour mode 
> before
> starting boot26. That helped. Unfortunately I get now infinite 
> messages with
> the 2.0 installation kernel:
I switched to supervisor too, but I didn't change to 256 colours ( 
stuck to 16 to save memory ) - I'll try that too.

> Stray IRQ, status=0xf1f1, spl=0, mask=0x0
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> The 1.62 installation kernel does not show these messages, but seems 
> not to
> recognise the Ether1 card. Utility menu/Configure network does not let 
> me
> configure a network card, it does not find one.
Hmm, last time I tried (around 1.5 or so) it didn't find my ANT Ether3 
maybe it will work now.

good luck
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Ben Harris | 9 Feb 2005 11:51
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Re: boot26 on R260

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Michael wrote:

> I switched to supervisor too, but I didn't change to 256 colours ( stuck to 
> 16 to save memory ) - I'll try that too.

256 colours are required because last time I looked at it the NetBSD 
raster console code couldn't support little-endian framebuffers at <8bpp. 
It's possible that this is fixed now.

>> Stray IRQ, status=0xf1f1, spl=0, mask=0x0
>> 
>> The 1.62 installation kernel does not show these messages, but seems not to
>> recognise the Ether1 card. Utility menu/Configure network does not let me
>> configure a network card, it does not find one.
> Hmm, last time I tried (around 1.5 or so) it didn't find my ANT Ether3 - - 
> maybe it will work now.

If it doesn't, please submit a PR.

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Michael | 9 Feb 2005 14:15
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Re: boot26 on R260


Hello,

>> I switched to supervisor too, but I didn't change to 256 colours ( 
>> stuck to 16 to save memory ) - I'll try that too.
>
> 256 colours are required because last time I looked at it the NetBSD 
> raster console code couldn't support little-endian framebuffers at 
> <8bpp. It's possible that this is fixed now.
Maybe it is, if not I could probably do it - spent the last few months 
hacking console/framebuffer drivers on other platforms. But this 
requires getting it to boot.

>>> Stray IRQ, status=0xf1f1, spl=0, mask=0x0
>>> The 1.62 installation kernel does not show these messages, but seems 
>>> not to
>>> recognise the Ether1 card. Utility menu/Configure network does not 
>>> let me
>>> configure a network card, it does not find one.
>> Hmm, last time I tried (around 1.5 or so) it didn't find my ANT 
>> Ether3 - - maybe it will work now.
>
> If it doesn't, please submit a PR.
Last time I tried ( ages ago ) /some/ Ether3 boards were supported but 
not mine. Do these boards just share the name for some reason or is the 
hardware sufficiently similar to be supported by a single driver?

have fun
Michael
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