On 03/09/10 07:46, Jason King wrote:
Actually, I do have a port of the fbsd driver as a replacement sitting
in the emancipation repo, just I don't have any hardware to test it,
so it could be replaced with an open driver if it could be tested
I happen to have one such NIC, which I picked up just in case we ever
did such an effort. I'm just not sure the effort is ultimately
justified by the value having an updated driver for such ancient
hardware would bring.
If there are other folks on this list who have such hardware and would
like an updated driver for it, it would be good to hear from them. I'm
willing to sponsor an integration effort of your driver if there are
enough requests for it to make the effort worthwhile.
-- Garrett
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Garrett D'Amore<[email protected]> wrote:
You wouldn't be trying to use this on a vlan, would you? pcn hardware is
*really* old, andld can't support full MTU vlans.
I've actually been contemplating removing this driver... its the only
remaining ethernet driver that can't support full MTU vlans. Additionally,
its closed source, and the effort to modernize is probably not terribly
worthwhile.
If you have the option, I'd go get another card. There are a lot of 1Gb
cards (anything from realtek ought to work and would be cheap.) A good
replacement 100 Mb card would be a Linksys LNE100TX card (version 4.x or
newer), which can still be found at many retailers. (There are almost no
other 100 Mb NICs still on the market.)
-- Garrett
On 03/08/10 23:50, Lee wrote:
Hi All,
Really hoping someone out there can help.
I am new to Solaris/OpenSolaris but have a reasonable amount of experience
with Linux. I have recently installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111b X86 on a
HP Visualize P750 workstation. The system is booting and running fine with
the majority of hardware and services operating correctly.
However I am having problems with the network adaptor that I cannot find a
solution to. The ethernet adaptor is an AMD PCnet32 LANCE and is using the
pcn driver. The adaptor is able to obtain an IP address and other network
configuration details via DHCP, however network performance is very slow and
unreliable. Web pages do not load, and establishing an SSH connection to the
linux box next to it takes around 5 minutes.
The same network card has been tested on the same physical network using a
Ubuntu live cd. Additionally I have tried another network cable and switch
port.
dladm show-ether yields the following:
Link: pcn0 ptype: current state:unknown auto:no speed-duplex: 0M
pause:none
MTU is set to 1500 (shown by dladm show-linkprop pcn0)
Not really sure where to go from here, but without a network connection
the box isn't very much fun! Any advice or guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Lee
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