Cobalt Qube

BigBowser · Post by **BigBowser** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:01 pm

Hi Shallax, it's me again

I saw that you've got a Qube2 and I'd like to know where you bought it? (I searched on Sun's homepage but I found only specifications..)

Thanks,
-BigBowser

Post by **ShALLaX** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:24 am

They dont make them anymore (havent done so for years)... you'll have to get them second hand.

I'm also starting to think it wasn't such a good buy - the drivers for the network adaptors (tulip) suck, you cant get more than 1.5MBps through them and they keep locking up.

BigBowser · Post by **BigBowser** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:09 am

Ook

I forget the idea.. Wasn't Cobalt sufficient? (yea I knew that all people from SunOS migrate to Linux but even on routers?

)

I saw that these drivers aren't in devel because of montains of versions of 2.4 and 2.6 kernel.. But as Sun did, you can use 2.2 kernel, if you didn't alrealy do that.

orochi · Post by **orochi** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:25 am

ebay.com would be the most common place to find a Qube2/Raq2.

@Shallax, What kernel version are you running, ive heard a few different kernel versions work with no hangups in the tulip driver (although I havent tested this yet, my raq2 is still in the mail :\

http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linu ... 00324.html

patches for 2.4.24 kernel

http://www.colonel-panic.org/cobalt-mips/