EBay Ultra 10 - Ethernet all zeros, IDprom error

[Shrp]

I bought a Sun Ultra 10 off of EBay (bad idea?) and it comes up showing an Ethernet address of all zeros. It sees the network fine - an 'arp -a' shows the machine on the network, again with an all-zero Ethernet address.

I get an error during its boot saying:

Invalid format code in IDprom

How do I correct these problems? TIA!

Randy

 

[jamisar]

i don't think you can correct this, ask 'Sun Microsystems servers' forum, my be you need a new|other idprom chip -----------
when they don't ask you anymore, where they are come from, and they don't tell you anymore, where they go ... you'r getting older !

 

[Annihilannic]

Have you tried ifconfig interface ether 01:23:45:67:89:0a after boot? Almost any random address should be unique!

Doubt that will get rid of the error message though. Annihilannic.

 

[alexzar]

Your battery on NVRAM is probable out of power. It happens with old machine.

Read here how to replace it.

http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

Thanks,
Alex

 

[g1itch]

alexzar is correct i have seen this happen before.