[lug] [OT] Solaris device names

[John Starkey]

Ok. So here's what I've got now, thanks everyone so far.

I've got a NetGear Tulip in there. (FA500TX I think). It uses the dnet driver.
but it's not seeing it.

Going by:

http://sun.pmbc.com/faq/s86faq.html#6.7

I need to find the  pci #.

Device Config said it's:

pci1385,f004

But I'm not convinced that's the correct #. It says to "Add the vendor/ID that
the Plug-and-Play BIOS startup message displayed for this card " I tried the
number above in /etc/driver-aliases and /boot/solaris/devicedb/master as it
states and even rebooted, with no results.

dmesg doesn't seem to return contain this info, if it does it's to crypted for
this pea brain :}

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

John


Bill Jorgensen wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, 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).
>
> Actually, the designation will let you know the throughput and type of
> ethernet card you have. If you see an le0 that corresponds to a NIC that
> is set to 10Mbit. You can find this on older Sun servers (1000's) and
> workstations (Sparc 4's and 5's). You can find le0's on Ultra 1's as
> long as the Ultra 1 does not have a server system board. When Sun left
> behind the old sun4d and sun4m architecture they left behind the le0.
> BTW, lo0 is the internal loopback.
>
> hme* corresponds to 100Mbit cards. These are found on sun4u (Ultra
> architecture) machines. You can add an hme* to a sun4m or sun4d, but it is
> an extra purchase. hme's are part of the sun4u architecture. qfe's are
> known as quad fast cards. They are 100Mbit and an extra purchase. You can
> get cards for pci or sbus machines.
>
> You will have another designation for FDDI interfaces and the ones that you
> listed. I am most familiar with the le's, hme's and qfe's.
>
> > 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.
>
> Unless you config the interface at OS install time you usually have to make
> the hostname.<interface> file in /etc. You can put the IP or the name in
> that file. If you put the name in the hostname.<interface> file you have to
> have it properly referenced in the /etc/inet/hosts file.
>
> To plumb the interface you would use this:
>
> ifconfig hme0 plumb
>
> You have to plumb the interface first in order to config it. You can do it
> all at reboot time if you have all the info within /etc/inet/hosts and
> /etc/hostname.<interface>.
>
> Later,
>
> Bill
>
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