Michael Bynum wrote: >> William D Waddington wrote: >> >> I think the use of double quotes to specify an alias >> is optional when >> used by add_drv(1M) from the command >> line. the double quotes are required by package >> postinstall script. >> >> Please try below steps to install bcmndis driver to >> system: >> #rem_drv bcmndis >> #modinfo|grep ndisapi >> #modunload -i <ndisapi module's id> >> #add_drv -i '"pciex14e4,4328.3"' bcmndis >> >> It should work, otherwise, please check >> /var/adm/messages and the output >> of #prtconf -D. >> An similar issue has ever been reported by users that >> command:add_drv -i >> '"pci14e4,4324"' bcmndis fail to install driver for >> bcm4324, because >> "pci1028,3" is detected in bcm4324 compatible device >> table, but Solaris >> matchs it to aac(7D) driver. The workaround is >> #rem_drv aac and >> reinstall bcmndis driver with add_drv command. >> >> Thanks, >> Michael >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > > Sweet, that worked! Thank you so much! > > For anyone else following this thread this is what I did. > > #rem_drv bcmndis > > #modinfo|grep ndisapi > This showed no output so I skipped the modunload command > > #add_drv -i '"pciex14e4,4328.3"' bcmndis > > #ifconfig bcmndis0 plumb > No error hurray! > > I'm curious though how you came up with the "pciex14e4,4328" part. I had > used "pci14e4,4328" based on the output of /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v > I assume this will only work using the 32 bit kernel? > Yes, it only works for 32bit kernel. I get "pciex14e4,4328.3" from the output of #prtconf -pv under your system.
Node 0x000020 assigned-addresses: 830c0010.00000000.f1ffc000.00000000.00004000.c30c0018.00000000.f0000000.0000000 0.00100000 reg: 000c0000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.030c0010.00000000.00000000.0000000 0.00004000.430c0018.00000000.00000000.00000000.00100000 compatible: 'pciex14e4,4328.1028.a.3' + 'pciex14e4,4328.1028.a' + 'pciex14e4,4328.3' + 'pciex14e4,4328' + 'pciexclass,028000' + 'pciexclass,0280' + 'pci14e4,4328.1028.a.3' + 'pci14e4,4328.1028.a' + 'pci1028,a' + 'pci14e4,4328.3' + 'pci14e4,4328' + 'pciclass,028000' + 'pciclass,0280' model: 'Network controller' power-consumption: 00000001.00000001 devsel-speed: 00000000 interrupts: 00000001 subsystem-vendor-id: 00001028 subsystem-id: 0000000a unit-address: '0' class-code: 00028000 revision-id: 00000003 vendor-id: 000014e4 device-id: 00004328 pcie-capid-pointer: 000000d0 pcie-capid-reg: 00000001 name: 'pci1028,a' Enjoy! And, you may need to wrap the XP driver link in NDIS page with ndis-1.2.1 for os08.11. - Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20090111/a5ae71be/attachment.html>
