[rescue] SBus FDDI and Solaris 9

[Michael Schiller]

Brian:

This is a known problem with Sol9. This is the Sun specified work around for it:
Add the following line into /etc/system

set sunddi_netifname_constraints=0

and that should allow you to do a boot -r and then the system will see it fine.

-Mike

Brian Hechinger wrote:

> hmmm.  this is bad.  my SBus FDDI boards (the NPI ones and the Sun badged NPI
> ones) are no longer supported in Solaris 9.  the drivers from 8 don't work and
> NPI has imploded, so there will be no more drivers out of them.  this sucks.
> bigtime.
>
> when i try to plumb the interface, i get this in syslog/console:
>
> WARNING : Minor name <nfm> does not match network driver name <nf>
>
> and i can see the FDDI board in prtconf:
>
>             nf (driver not attached)
>
> but that shows up with or without drivers.
>
> i have been unable to find any info about this at all.  i would hope that the
> FDDI boards can somehow be supported, since they are very important to my
> network.
>
> anyone have any info about this?
>
> -brian
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