[SunHELP] SunPci driver on Solaris 10

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:54:44 -0600, Fabio <fabio at crearium.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I installed solaris 10 on a sun blade 1000 and I installed the sunpci
> 2.3 driver for a SunPC 600Mhz card. After installing this error is shown:
> 
> nietzsche% /opt/SUNWspci2/bin/sunpci -l
> /dev/sunpci2drv*: No such file or directory
> The SunPCi device driver is not installed.
> 
> To run the startup program:
> 
>      1. Type: su, then enter your superuser password.
>      2. Type: cd /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris
>      3. Type: ./sunpcload
> nietzsche% cd /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris && sudo ./sunpcload
> 
> The SunPCi 2 driver installation has failed.
>   Cannot find the driver file: sunpcidrv.2100
> 
> any workaround?
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There's a workaround on the sun forum for this 

http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/index.php?t=msg&goto=5572&rid=0#msg_5572

it doesn't seem to work for everyone though.

Dan