[lug] [OT] Solaris device names

[KoolMan]

What kind of a card is it???

Your missing a few tpyes like qfe0 (for instance that would be a quad fast
eithernet card)
hme0 = 100mb
le0 = 10mb
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Starkey" <jstarkey at advancecreations.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 6:09 PM
Subject: [lug] [OT] Solaris device names


> With a little help from another list member... offline.... I was able to
> find what i think are the Solaris device names. But it's still throwing
> me because of two things... could someone lend a kind word :}?
>
> 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).
>
> When I boot with a new card it's config'ing it (completely I think), or
> atleast it's bring up the config window and listing an "ethernet
> controller". But ifconfig -a isn't showing anything. And it's not
> creating a hostname.whatever file. prtconf -D isn't returning anything
> that resembles a card.
>
> driver names: pci-ide, ata, cmdk, and sd.
>
> The driver is a DFE530TX and I've also tried a via-rhine.
>
> Anyone know what I can do to find out if this is config'd and/or why i
> can't see it?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
>
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