From: Mike McShane (mcshane@cs.umn.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 11:11:19 EST
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> I've scoured the 'net and have come up short. Does anyone know of any
> drivers for 3com or Intel PCI cards that I can run under Sol8 on a
> SunBlade 100? Or, perhaps a driver for a NIC that I could pick up at
> Best Buy/Compusa/officemax/etc?
Well, it seems that I'm not the first person to run into a problem
like this. There are a few people out there that have written drivers
that seem to work for a variety of cards:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
http://www.lynnsoft.com/solaris.htm
http://garrett.damore.org/software/ethernet/support.shtml
http://www.confusioncentral.com/ethernet/ethernet.html
Also, I got one response about Intel and 3Com specifically:
Intel and 3COM nics are both missing Fcode, which is necessary for any
kind of PCI add-on controller to function on a SPARC platform. With
SPARC equipment, if it isn't on the HCL, it's almost definitely not
going to work.
We ended up fixing this problem in other ways, so I have not had the
opportunity to try any of these drivers.
Thanks for all the help everyone!
-- Mike McShane University of Minnesota CS/IT System Staff At 200MPH, you have no friends! _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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