From: Eric Sisson (ems@mdacc.tmc.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 29 2004 - 15:26:25 EST
Greetings, all,
I am working with a group that has an Ultra 10, running Solaris 8, on
which the onboard Ethernet has died. Unfortunately, they let the
hardware maintenance lapse, so we are trying to fix it ourselves. We
grabbed a 3Com 3C905 card from a stash of parts and plugged that into
one of the PCI slots, intending to use that. However, it is not
working, and that is the reason for this post.
The lights on the card glow when an Ethernet cable is connected to
it, so the card appears to be good. However, entering ``show-nets''
at the ``ok'' prompt lists only the onboard interface. When we boot
the system and enter command ``prtconf'', we see the following (in
part):
pci, instance #1
...
ethernet (driver not attached)
When we remove the card and do a ``boot -r'', the ``ethernet ...''
line disappears from the output, so that line does refer to the
3C905. I have tried entering ``ifconfig plumb'', but that seems to
have no effect. Clearly, we are missing something.
Does anybody have any experience with 3C905 (or related) cards in an
Ultra 10 or other SPARC system? Should I be doing something else or
extra?
Regards,
Eric Sisson
-- Eric M. Sisson, Senior Research Programmer email: ems@mdacc.tmc.edu Academic and Research Computing - Box 235 voice: 713-792-2629 or University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center 713-792-2618 1515 Holcombe Boulevard fax: 713-745-0615 Houston, Texas 77030-4009 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:29:47 EDT