From: Eric Sisson (ems@mdacc.tmc.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 29 2004 - 16:21:27 EST
Greetings, all,
This is a summary of the responses I received to my posting about
using a 3Com 3C905 PCI Ethernet card in an Ultra 10 (original message
below).
Apparently, the 3C905 is meant only for Intel-based systems and not
for SPARC systems. It was worth a try since it was lying around, but
it appears that the group will need to purchase a Sun PCI NIC.
I did receive pointers to some web sites that could have useful
information. I have not had a chance to check these, yet. For the
record (and for the benefit of anybody who finds this message in the
archives), they are the following:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
http://www.confusioncentral.com/ethernet/ethernet.html
Thanks go to the following for very prompt and informative responses:
Jacob Rieper
J. Oquendo
Jeremy Loukinas
Russell Poffenberger
Matt Ungaro
Darren Dunham
I appreciate everybody's time.
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 Original message: >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? _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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