From: Chris Gregors (Chris.Gregors@TELUS.COM)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 11:06:10 EST
It's not the driver that is the problem, it is the firmware that is the
problem.
A standard 3com nic has a boot-prom that has x86 code to be executed on
an intel machine during initialization. Sticking the card in a PPC
machine acomplishes nothing unless you have PPC firmware on the card.
I've seen similar problems on HP hardware with Symbios FW-scsi cards. In
the case of the Symbios card, they were kind enough to supply the
firmware on their web, and a utility to re-flash the card for a
different architecture.
<chris>
-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Dieter [mailto:ldieter@SNRGY.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:57 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Still about NIC on 43P...
>From what I recall, this won't work. Yes, the IBM card is basically a
3com card, but there are some firmware changes in the "IBM" 3com card
that make the IBM driver incompatible with the "generic" device.
I don't think you are going to be successful with this...sorry.
-Lloyd
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:43:44 -0300
Dilton Dantas de Oliveira <dilton@POP-SE.RNP.BR> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> ...And the saga goes on (NIC on 43P)...
>
> We got a 3Com Etherlink XL 3C905-TX, installed the driver
> devices.pci.b7105090.rte from the original AIX 4.3 cd, but I'm not
> getting to configure it on the that 43P.
>
> It is listed as 'Defined' and I can't change this status. When I try
> to add an interface, I get the following error:
>
> "Method error (/usr/lib/methods/defif):
> 0514-068 Cause not know."
>
> Does someone have any ideas of how can I solve that? I've tried a lot
> of things with no success.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Dilton.
>
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