How to activate a 100MB Card?

2007-12-25 11:02:00

Well, it was not too bad.

The problem was that the original installation did not include support

for the Fast Ethernet card, because it wasn't plugged in at the time.

I did a "pkginfo | grep SUNWhmd", and there was no installed support for

these cards.

So... I mounted the Solaris CDROM (Sol 2.5.1 HW 11/97), cd'ed to

/cdrom/cdrom0/s0/Solaris_2.5.1 and ran the "pkgadd -d . SUNWhmd SUNWhmdu".

The installation completed with no trouble.

I then mv'ed the /etc/hostname.le0 to hostname-.le0- (mv hostname.le0

hostname-.le0-), and then I cp'ed the hostname-.le0- to hostname.hme0 (cp

hostname-.le0- hostname.hme0).

Then I rebooted with a "reboot -r".

The interface was recognized and is working great.

Most people who responded assumed I had the SUNWhmd packages already

installed.

Some wanted me to start from scratch.

Some thought I might have a ".be" card (whatever that is). As I said in

my original, it was functional in another SS10, so I was pretty sure it was

an ".hme" card.

ORGINAL PROBLEM-

I took a spare 100MB card from a SPACE 10 (SunOS 4.1.4) and plugged it

into another SPARC 10 (Solaris 2.5.1). I can't seem to find the recipe to

get it to work.

I did a "boot -r", then I did and "shutdown -g0 -i0" to the boot prompt.

I do watch-net-all with a cable plugged into the new card, and it looks

good. Lots of little ...... marching across the screen

I do a "boot -s", and go to the /etc directory. I rename the hostname.le0

to hostname-.le0-, and then I "cp hostname-.le0- hostname.hme0" and reboot.

NO GOOD. The OS complains there is NO hme0 device.

I then "mv hostname.hme0 hostname.hme", and reboot. The OS doesn't

complain, but the in.rdisc says there are no interfaces up, and no network

stuff works.

What am I doing wrong?

Dave

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