From: Rob De Langhe (rob.de.langhe@twistfare.be)
Date: Thu Dec 25 2003 - 08:39:03 EST
Hi all,
I finally can send the summary on how to get this card at work in the
Sun Ultra-5. Just when I got a lot of straight-to-the-point replies from
many of you, my Ultra-5 broke up with memory errors on one of its DIMMs.
So I had to get first new DIMMs from someone on the Internet, got them
yesterday, and as a nice Xmas present installed them today in the box.
Then applied the suggestions you sent me, and done : the SunPCI card is
hapilly seated and the driver correctly loaded.
This is the trick :
1) I downloaded a more recent version of SunPCI software (version 1.3),
but this doesn't work. As Dik Casper point out correctly, each specific
version of the card needs the corresponding specific version of the
driver software.
2) so I trashed the SUNWspci3 package, and loaded (again) the correct
version 1.2.1 package.
As most of you informed precisely, after installing the package, I made
copies of the driver files for Solaris-9 :
cd /opt/SUNWspci/drivers/solaris
cp -p sunpcidrv.280 sunpcidrv.290
cp -p sunpcidrv.280.64 sunpcidrv.290.64
reboot -- -rs
3) after the reboot, run the command
/opt/SUNWspci/drivers/solaris/sunpcload
and you see the driver loaded with
modinfo | grep -i sunpci
4) when launching the command /opt/SUNWspci/bin/sunpci, it protests
about too old BIOS. Searching around on the Net brought me onto
"http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/805/805-6055/pdf/004.ChapEN.pdf", page 20
where the utility "sunpciflash" is mentioned
5) and done. The rest is clearly described in
"http://docs.sun.com/source/817-2966-10/belle_getstart.html"
Rgds
Rob
Thanks to Dik Casper, Gerard Henry, Andreas Hoschler, Michael Lehmann,
Geoff Reed, Paul Richards, Aaron Taylor, Sid Wilroy.
This is a smashing mailing list !
Rob
>
>
> Rob De Langhe wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently installed a SunPCI card in my (Solaris-9) Ultra-5, with
>> off-the-shelf memory DIMMs.
>>
>> But when I power-on the Ultra-5, there is no way to get access to the
>> card. Trying to load the driver (sunpcload) says that the card is not
>> present. "prtconf" shows no driver, "modinfo" neither.
>>
>> A collegue has exactly the same problem on another machine, with
>> another card. To me, that lowers the chance that we BOTh did not fit
>> the card correctly in the server, as suggest by SUN documentation.
>>
>> Anyone has a clue if there is some particular thing in the
>> installation procedure that might not be described, or in such
>> 'small' letters that we overlooked it?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Rob
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