Debian390 / Hercules Problems

[David Clements]

Hi. I am working with the Hercules team, testing qeth connectivity both
layer2 and layer3 and experiencing a couple of problems.

My initial setup was to install debian using a ctc, and then try some qeth
tests. I tried a netinst install and several mirror sites, in several
countries, and every mirror site fails. I looked at /var/log/syslog as it
tried the mirrors and tried the wget command used by the installer, on my
host system and could find stable, unstable, etc. on each mirror.

I then tried to install using a full cd1 and had a successful install.

After a successful install I tried to work with the qeth device, and found
lsqeth and znetconf are missing, I tried to update s390-tools with apt-get
and it says s390-tools is at the latest release. I pulled s390-tools-1.17.0
from the IBM Developerwork website installed the zconf part of the package
and continued with my testing.

I have just noticed in the /var/log/installer/status file a comment that
the s390-tools-udeb package included in the install only contains binaries
for dasdfmt and fdasd. I have searched for znetconf in all releases and can
find no trace in any debian package.

Any ideas?

Dave Clements.

[Stephen Powell]

Post by David Clements
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After a successful install I tried to work with the qeth device, and found
lsqeth and znetconf are missing, I tried to update s390-tools with apt-get
and it says s390-tools is at the latest release. I pulled s390-tools-1.17.0
from the IBM Developerwork website installed the zconf part of the package
and continued with my testing.
I have just noticed in the /var/log/installer/status file a comment that
the s390-tools-udeb package included in the install only contains binaries
for dasdfmt and fdasd. I have searched for znetconf in all releases and can
find no trace in any debian package.
Any ideas?

I have used ctc under Hercules and qeth in a virtual machine under z/VM,
but I have never used qeth under Hercules. The standard Debian package for
Hercules, 3.07, does not support an Open Systems Adapter Express in QDIO
mode, so that's the end of that.

I've never tried to use znetconf. For that matter, I've never tried to use
lsqeth either. But it does seem to be included in the standard s390-tools
package under Debian. Here is some output from my system:

# whereis lsqeth
lsqeth: /sbin/lsqeth /usr/share/man/man8/lsqeth.8.gz

By the way, I'd be interested to hear your opinion of my "Debian Under Hercules"
web page at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/hercules.htm .
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