[parisc-linux] A180 Ignition Howto

[parisc-linux] A180 Ignition Howto

[Martin K. Petersen]

Alex asked me to post this...

My A180 arrived a couple of days ago.

Just like any other HP box there are loads of HP-UX docs but no
information on the hardware at all. Grrr. HP. When will you ever
learn?

The A180 has a builtin webconsole. On the back of the system unit
there are two RJ45 connectors. One of them is regular ethernet
(DEC2114x btw. Should be piece of cake to get running) and the other
is for the webconsole.

According to the docs on HP's website the system should autodetect
whether to use serial port or web as console. I was unable to get my
HP 70096 serial console running, though. Then I discovered a jumper on
the motherboard which could allegedly force it in either mode. I tried
moving it to serial with no avail.

Oh, well. Bugger. Then I decided to try out the webconsole. The
interface defaults to 192.0.0.192. Clickety-clik. *Blam* the Java
stuff in the webconsole nuked my Netscape. Grumble.

Ok. Then I tried connecting from a Windows-box. Much better. The web
interface appeared in the browser and I was able to configure IP and
access control for the web console.

I rebooted the web console and presto: I could configure HP-UX and
regular networking.

Phew.

I'm a bit annoyed about the serial console stuff. I'll try hooking up
a different terminal tomorrow.

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Re: [parisc-linux] A180 Ignition Howto

[Alex deVries]

On 12 May 1999, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> My A180 arrived a couple of days ago.

So, the three Americans have theirs, the Dane was next, and the four of
the five Canadians have theirs too now.  The Welshman is all that's left.
Wuhoo!

> The A180 has a builtin webconsole. On the back of the system unit
> there are two RJ45 connectors. One of them is regular ethernet
> (DEC2114x btw. Should be piece of cake to get running) and the other
> is for the webconsole.

How did you know that it was a tulip?

> Oh, well. Bugger. Then I decided to try out the webconsole. The
> interface defaults to 192.0.0.192. Clickety-clik. *Blam* the Java
> stuff in the webconsole nuked my Netscape. Grumble.

I had similiar problems with Netscape 4.51.  It seems to work just fine on
Netscape 4.08, though, which is what came with Red Hat 5.2.

I haven't gotten to serial console yet because both my desktop and my
(recently dropped) notebook both only have 9 pin serial ports, and the
supplied cable's 25 pins.

Incidentally, Christopher Beard told me over lunch that he got the kernel
building under HPUX, which would solve the linking problems we were
worried about.

- Alex

Re: [parisc-linux] A180 Ignition Howto

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex deVries <adevries@redhat.com> writes:

>> The A180 has a builtin webconsole. On the back of the system unit
>> there are two RJ45 connectors. One of them is regular ethernet
>> (DEC2114x btw. Should be piece of cake to get running) and the
>> other is for the webconsole.

Alex> How did you know that it was a tulip?

Motherboard chip spotting...


Alex> Incidentally, Christopher Beard told me over lunch that he got
Alex> the kernel building under HPUX, which would solve the linking
Alex> problems we were worried about.

Great!

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Martin Kasper Petersen			BOFH, IC1&2, Aalborg University, DK
mailto:mkp@SunSITE.auc.dk		http://SunSITE.auc.dk/~mkp/

Re: [parisc-linux] A180 Ignition Howto

[Kumar]

Flame intended:

Well I thought Linux was an international phenomenon and not limited
to Americans, Canadians, Dane or Welshman. They already have enough money
to lick Gates's ass. It all sounds so stupid to me...at least narrow
minded. I am getting out of this mailing list as soon as possible.

Linux on PA-RISC does not depend on some self conceited people.

-Kumar

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alex deVries wrote:

> 
> On 12 May 1999, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > 
> > My A180 arrived a couple of days ago.
> 
> So, the three Americans have theirs, the Dane was next, and the four of
> the five Canadians have theirs too now.  The Welshman is all that's left.
> Wuhoo!
> 
> > The A180 has a builtin webconsole. On the back of the system unit
> > there are two RJ45 connectors. One of them is regular ethernet
> > (DEC2114x btw. Should be piece of cake to get running) and the other
> > is for the webconsole.
> 
> How did you know that it was a tulip?
> 
> > Oh, well. Bugger. Then I decided to try out the webconsole. The
> > interface defaults to 192.0.0.192. Clickety-clik. *Blam* the Java
> > stuff in the webconsole nuked my Netscape. Grumble.
> 
> I had similiar problems with Netscape 4.51.  It seems to work just fine on
> Netscape 4.08, though, which is what came with Red Hat 5.2.
> 
> I haven't gotten to serial console yet because both my desktop and my
> (recently dropped) notebook both only have 9 pin serial ports, and the
> supplied cable's 25 pins.
> 
> Incidentally, Christopher Beard told me over lunch that he got the kernel
> building under HPUX, which would solve the linking problems we were
> worried about.
> 
> - Alex
> 
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Re: [parisc-linux] A180 Ignition Howto

[Tom Javen]

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Kumar wrote:

> 
> 
> Flame intended:
> 
> Well I thought Linux was an international phenomenon and not limited
> to Americans, Canadians, Dane or Welshman. They already have enough money
> to lick Gates's ass. It all sounds so stupid to me...at least narrow
> minded. I am getting out of this mailing list as soon as possible.
> 
> Linux on PA-RISC does not depend on some self conceited people.
> 
> -Kumar
And your problem was ?


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Re: [parisc-linux] A180 Ignition Howto

[Kirk Bresniker]

| 
| 
| Alex asked me to post this...
| 
| My A180 arrived a couple of days ago.
| 
| Just like any other HP box there are loads of HP-UX docs but no
| information on the hardware at all. Grrr. HP. When will you ever
| learn?

Did you try out the online information? Try the following URL.
It has lots of answers to "How Do I ..." questions:

http:/eproducts.hp.com/A-Class/frame_service.html

| 
| The A180 has a builtin webconsole. On the back of the system unit
| there are two RJ45 connectors. One of them is regular ethernet
| (DEC2114x btw. Should be piece of cake to get running) and the other
| is for the webconsole.
| 
| According to the docs on HP's website the system should autodetect
| whether to use serial port or web as console. 

The autodectection is based on seeing LINK_OK on the webconsole port. 
If there is an active LAN attached, you will attach via the webconsole.
Note that the RS-232 hardware is the same whether you use the RS-232 
connection or the webified version. The only thing the LINK_OK does is
flip a mux.

Did you get you systems with a management card? It's handy if you did
since you'd be able to reset a hung system remotely. 

|                                                I was unable to get my
| HP 70096 serial console running, though. Then I discovered a jumper on
| the motherboard which could allegedly force it in either mode. I tried
| moving it to serial with no avail.

What cable were you using? The cable I have connected to my system 
is an HP 24542G RS-232 cable. Here is the pinout:

CPU		Peripheral
9-pin F		25-pin M
1 <------------- 4
2 <------------- 2
3 -------------> 3
4 --------+----> 5
	  |
	  +----> 6
5 <------------> 7
6 <----+-------- 20
       |
8 <----+
7 -------------> 8

| 
| Oh, well. Bugger. Then I decided to try out the webconsole. The
| interface defaults to 192.0.0.192. Clickety-clik. *Blam* the Java
| stuff in the webconsole nuked my Netscape. Grumble.

The docs say that Netscape 3.01 should be okay. 

KMB

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Re: [parisc-linux] A180 Ignition Howto

[Kirk Bresniker]

Linuxen, 

| 
| Incidentally, Christopher Beard told me over lunch that he got the kernel
| building under HPUX, which would solve the linking problems we were
| worried about.
| 

I have been kibbitzing your efforts and have also been building the kernel
under HP-UX 10.20. I actually ran into a problem with gcc 2.8.1 generating
code that wouldn't assemble. I traced the problem to re-definition of .SUBSPA
parameters and hacked gas to ignore the problem. One question I have is 
what are you configuring into the compile? When all was said and done I was
able to leave in only SCSI and serial and generate all the objects.

KMB
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