[Re: [Sunhelp] adding ethernet]

[Srikanta Nayak]

Hi  Mr.Babu..

Just check  with this & let me know if ur problrm solved..

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Q. How do I get Solaris to recognize a NE2000 compatible NIC card?

NEI is the driver name for the Novell/Eagle 2000-compatible family of NIC cards.
The driver is disabled by default because probing for it
causes problems with other cards (it sometimes locks the system up). So, you have
to modify file /kernel/drv/nei.conf to include I/O ranges,
interrupts. For example:

name="nei" parent="isa" reg=0x1,0xf600,0x1f interrupts=11 ;

Where name, "nei," is what will show up in /dev. The parent, "isa, " is what bus
type to use. The term ISA is misleading as it includes PCI
bus. To Solaris, it's either sysbus, the SPARC system bus, or isa, meaning
anything that's not SPARC sysbus. The "0x1" is a flag meaning
that I'm going to specify I/O port ranges, rather than memory offsets, 0xf600
indicates the beginning I/O address, in hex and 0x1f is the
offset of I/O range, from the beginning, in hex. The "interrupts=11" indicate IRQ
11, in decimal. Thus, I have a Realtek 8029 PCI
NE2000-compatible card, set to base I/O addresses 0xf600-0xf61f, IRQ 11.

You also have to add a /etc/hostname.nei0 file with the IP address and hostname.
Also add the line to /etc/hosts. For example:

10.1.1.1        foo.bar.com

Next, as root, type "touch /reconfigure; reboot" After rebooting, type "ifconfig
nei0 plumb" to make sure the device was recognized.
It should show up in the output from typing "prtconf". If this card is "Plug and
Play," you should disable it and configure the card manually, if
possible

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Regards.
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Srikanta  Kumar  Nayak.
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