Alpha firmware

[vern]

I'm playing around with an Alpha system and get NetBSD loaded. I need to replace the firmware with a firmware from ...

http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/

... my question is ... how do I find out what type of system I have?

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

Ever look at aida32 now knows as everest home edition?

 

[Weasel]

I just hopped on google and searched for images, part numbers, etc and finally found out what the little mystery box was.

 

[vern]

Ever look at aida32 now knows as everest home edition?

I don't understand what you just said. What I did understand was Aida32 ... which doesn't run on Alpha. Alpha being the platform ... NOT x86.

I just hopped on google and searched for images, part numbers, etc and finally found out what the little mystery box was.

That doesn't really give me much information.

 

[Weasel]

:laugh: I know, sorry. It's all I could think of and it's how I figured out what my alpha is.

 

[vern]

:laugh: I know, sorry. It's all I could think of and it's how I figured out what my alpha is.

Anything particular you looked at?

 

[Weasel]

I figured out what it was by typing the PCB number of the motherboard in to google and it came up with a few things off of mailing lists about alphalinux or something. How fast is it? It might be a Multia like mine... I've got some pics right here. The PCB number was right under those two big chips closest to the camera on the right side.

 

[vern]

500 MHz with 128MB of RAM. I can't get my hands on it again until Monday so I'll have to get back to this after the weekend.