Moinak Ghosh stated: < ciwi wrote: < >Dear All < > < >I have a Dell Dimension E521 computer and have been trying to connect to < >the Internet on Solaris but to no avail. < > < >The following is what I did: < >1. Edit the /etc/driver_aliases with [i]bge "pci14e4,170c"[/i].
One should never edit that file (or any in /etc), use add_drv instead like: add_drv -i '"pci14e4,170c"' bfe this command will also update the /etc/name_to_major file and modload the driver.. < >2. Run the command [i]modload /kernel/drv/bge[/i]. This line may not have worked for you if the system was in 64bit mode. < >3. Run the command [i]ifconfig bge plumb[/i]. < >4. Run the command [i]sys-unconfig[/i]. < > < >The result was that at bootup the system was just continuing to reboot < >after filesystem synchronisation. I guess that there is no driver for the < >NIC. continued to reboot ? You mean the box keeps rebooting ? Sounds like a different problem you have. < >I hope that any one can help. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you < >in advance. < > < < I myself am using this box. You need to grab Masayuki-San's bfe < driver from here: < http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/bfe-2.4.0.tar.gz Same here, I use that driver, works a treat: # ifconfig -a lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 bfe0: flags=201000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 192.168.2.3 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 0:1a:a0:15:23:f0 Regards, Sean. . < < Regards, < Moinak. < < >Ciwi < > < > < >This message posted from opensolaris.org < >_______________________________________________ < >opensolaris-discuss mailing list < >opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org < > < < _______________________________________________ < opensolaris-discuss mailing list < opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
