[SunHELP] odd system problems (ethernet not working and 'bus fault')

[Solaris Neophyte]

i'm thinking of naming my first born Nils (that's your name right?) now.  your
solution seems to have worked... partially.  the port seems to be active now. 
it's not fussy when i disconnect the cable and reconnect it.

however, there are two things.  the first is I still get an error when I do the
'test net' the transceiver test fails with a "-1" error.  the other problem is
the port is a 10/100 capable port, but with the setting you gave, for some
reason that is beyond me, the port is negotiated at 10mbps not 100mpbs.

i always thought it did the auto negotiation thing.  this is the output from
dmesg in regards to the port (when it wasn't at all working) and you'll note it
mentioned a successful auto negotiation.

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Feb 23 01:03:57 froggie11 hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] SUNW,hme0 : PCI IO 2.0
(Rev Id = c1) Found
Feb 23 01:03:57 froggie11 simba: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: network at 1,1,
hme0
Feb 23 01:03:57 froggie11 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] hme0 is
/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/network at 1,1
Feb 23 01:04:21 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : Internal
Transceiver Selected.
Feb 23 01:04:21 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 :
Auto-Negotiated  100 Mbps Full-Duplex Link Up
Feb 23 01:14:07 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : Internal
Transceiver Selected.
Feb 23 01:14:07 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 :
Auto-Negotiated  100 Mbps Full-Duplex Link Up
Feb 26 22:35:44 froggie11 hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] SUNW,hme0 : PCI IO 2.0
(Rev Id = c1) Found
Feb 26 22:35:44 froggie11 simba: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: network at 1,1,
hme0
Feb 26 22:35:44 froggie11 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] hme0 is
/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/network at 1,1
Feb 26 22:37:47 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 26 22:38:00 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 26 22:38:33 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 26 22:41:32 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 26 22:49:45 froggie11 hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] SUNW,hme0 : PCI IO 2.0
(Rev Id = c1) Found
Feb 26 22:49:45 froggie11 simba: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: network at 1,1,
hme0
Feb 26 22:49:45 froggie11 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] hme0 is
/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/network at 1,1
Feb 26 22:50:01 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 26 22:50:14 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 26 22:50:47 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 26 22:53:46 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 27 00:29:35 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 27 00:30:05 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 27 00:37:05 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 27 00:55:56 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
Feb 27 00:57:33 froggie11 hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response
from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
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--- Nils9 <nils9 at apollo.lv> wrote:
> I'm not guru with Ultra10 hardware and dont know specific things, but this
> might be the case of autonegotiation. Try adding this line at the end of
> /etc/system and reboot.
> 
> set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
> 
> -Nils
> SWHTechnology.
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