[SPARCbook] Start-from-scratch full procedure for PCMCIA ethernet card?

[Thomas Roehr]

You should just have to do a 'boot -r' from the prom prompt.

Tom Roehr
troehr at nj-onramp.com

Rich Kulawiec wrote:

>I've finally gotten a PCMCIA Ethernet card for my 3GX (Solaris 2.5.1).
>And I've managed to figure out chunks of the procedure for making 
>it work...except that this machine apparently has no device entries
>for the requisite driver!  Extensive searching (of this list's archives
>and others, as well as many web sites) hasn't turned up this info --
>which I suspect, when I find it, will consist of names and major/minor
>devices numbers for entries in /dev and/or /devices as well as symlinks
>between then.
>
>So...my question comes down to: does anyone have a complete "how-to"
>that starts at nothing (no /dev entries, no driver, etc.) and goes through
>the whole thing -- plumbing the interface, assigning it an address, etc. -- 
>because I strongly suspect that the missing /dev entries are not the
>only problem I'm going to bump into and I'd like to make this work.
>
>Thanks,
>---Rsk
>Rich Kulawiec
>rsk at magpage.com
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