On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:58 AM, andy thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, James C. McPherson wrote:
>
>  On 16/04/11 06:29 AM, Steven Acres wrote:
>>
>>> What's the output of prtpicl -v | grep -i net ?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:35 AM, andy thomas <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but does anyone know if
>>>    drivers for Intel's Pro/1000MT gigabit PCI network interfaces are
>>>    available for the SPARC version of OSOL?
>>>
>>>    I've installed Milax 0.3.2 on an E450 and it configures & uses the
>>>    on-board hme0 interface but doesn't see either the Intel E100 (100
>>>    Mbit/s) or MT1000 gigabit PCI interface cards. I seem to remember
>>>    reading somewhere that drivers for Intel NICs were included with
>>>    Solaris 10 - would it be possible to install the driver from Sol 10
>>>    and use this with Milax/OSOL or would I be better off getting a
>>>    Sun-supported gigabit NIC?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'd expect to see the e1000g driver under /kernel/drv/sparcv9.
>> That should attach and work just fine with your card, though
>> it's certainly possible that you might have to check your driver
>> aliases and update via update_drv.
>>
>
> This is missing from /kernel/drv/sparcv9 so I'll see if I can find it
> elsewhere.
>
>
>  This post might prove useful to you:
>> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp/entry/how_do_i_find_out
>>
>
> Thanks for the info!
>
> Andy
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Milax was a 'minimal' OSOL derivative, which may be why you don't have it.
This is pkg info:
http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/manifest/0/driver%2Fnetwork%[email protected],5.11-0.151.0.1%3A20101104T232029Z
-- 
Cheers,

Steven
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Steven Acres
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