Re: Disable onboard hme0 on ultra5

From: Jan De Luyck (ml@kcore.org)
Date: Fri Sep 17 2004 - 12:47:00 EDT


On Friday 17 September 2004 18:29, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I'm currently having a bit of trouble with one of our ultra5 boxes - dead
> hme0. It's not possible to get it shipped for replacement, so I'm making
> due with two PCI NIC's.
>
> The onboard transceiver is fubar, doesn't work, receives nothing. Is it
> possible to deactivate this in some way so that Solaris doesn't see it
> either? This because we have a standard jumpstart server that I would like
> to be able to use also on this modified box....
>

Small addition as to why I'd need to be able to 'remove' the onboard NIC: The
software running on our boxes has a sh*tload of configuration files that
specify the NIC to be used... Having to change that would be a serious
inconvenience, since those boxes get swapped around now and then.

Thanks.

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