[SPARCbook] ifconfig pcelx0 fails?

Nick nmanisca at vt.edu
Thu Jul 20 16:43:10 CDT 2000


On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 02:52:23PM +0200, Rainer Canavan wrote:
> > 
> > I have looked through archives for the answer to this, but never found it.
> > 
> > I have a SparcBook 3GS.  I just bought an Etherlink III 3c589C pc card for it.
> > I plug the card in and then run modinfo and I see that the propper driver
> > is loaded.  Then I type ifconfig -a and I do not see the card listed...
> > 
> > I tried running drvconfig and rebooting the machine, but no luck.  I do not
> > have all that much experience with Solaris so I am thinking that I am just
> > missing something obvious.  Any suggestions?  Would it help if I posted the
> > information from the logs?
> 
> No, you need to "plumb" it first, AFAIK. read the man page for ifconfig.
> 
> Rainer

Actually I have it working now.  What I did was add an extra line to
/etc/drivers_aliases.





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