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

[Chris Powell]

SPARC Solaris will only recognise certain PCMCIA Ethernet cards - check
out the pcelx manual page. I've had success with a 3com 3c589B card,
but failed with another 3com card (I think that was a 3c589 - without
the B suffix). Check /var/adm/messages for the kernel recognising the
card correctly, then start toying with plumbing the interface.


ChrisP.

> 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