Solaris and PCI Ethernet cards -- Was: [lug] [OT] Solaris device names

John Starkey jstarkey at advancecreations.com
Thu Feb 15 22:10:01 MST 2001


No. I'm trying to get a Tulip (Netgear Card) to work using Solaris on a PII.

Pain in the butt. It's showing now in the config, when it asks for a boot
device. And it appears when it lists the devices to config, but once the
system is up I can;t find it anywhere.

John

Nate Duehr wrote:

> On a (I think) related topic, does anyone on the list know of any way to
> use a non-Sun PCI ethernet card in an Ultra V?  I've heard that this is
> possible with drivers, but I neither know where to get them or which
> cards might be supported.
>
> But I *do* know that $700 for a Sun ethernet card is silly for a desktop
> machine... just to get a second interface.  Argh.... (GRIN).
>
> Since it's not technically Linux-related, feel free to answer off-list
> if you know of how/where etc...
>
> John, I assume that's what you're working on here...
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 06:09:22PM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> > It appears that Sun changed the device names for NICs several times from
> > 2.x to 8. So what are the current device names? I've seen. hme0, dlan0,
> > lan0, and le0 (for the first card of course).
>
> --
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