RE: PowerPC woes

[Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

Title: RE: PowerPC woes

 

> Nick Rees wrote:
> >
> > While I'm on it, I was using a PowerPC mvme2402 for some of these
tests. I
> > am running Tornado 2.0.2. Whenever the PPC reboots it spends ages
doing
> > apparently nothing (i.e. about 3 minutes) just before it prints out
the
> > Attaching TCP/IP and network interface messages (i.e. very eearly in
the
> > boot).
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea how to get rid of this. It does it twice,
so
> > waiting 5-6 minutes every boot is a bit of a bore.

I have a different suggestion from Andrew's.  I have seen a very similar problem to the on Nick describes on the MVME2700.  The problem is actually with the Ethernet 10/100 autonegotiation.  If I plug the Ethernet into a 10/100 Hub it works fine.  If I plug it into certain types of Ethernet switches (e.g. Cisco 2924 I think) it takes several minutes, and it does it twice as Nick observed. Try using a different physical device and see if it improves.

Mark