quad fast ethernet in sunblade100

grrrr. Trying to get this to work. Maybe it needs a patch. Its a pci quad. Any ideas? I can send the chipset if you know.. :mad:

Try this and see if you find any info to help.

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub...omponents.html

thks p2p. I went there already and it is the first one on the list, so it should work.

msg on boot - is ifconfig - bad name qfe0,,,,,,etc moving ipv4 address...failed etc.

Odd. I have no trouble with these babys in the other suns. Ifconfig won't cut it either once os is up. Weird.

correction-

boot msg reads "bad file number" after each ifconfig attempt.

from the guy down the hall:

Remove the hostname and "plumb" the interfaces. He'd also like to know why you ifconfig the interfaces, cause ifconfig is a bit fussy w/ qfe?
He'd need to know what version Solaris you are running and if you have all the interfaces named correctly.

Disclaimer: I haven't worked with the Quad interface so I'll have to go ask him......

thks KorpDeath. I've put some of these in u5s and u450e s but this is the first sunblade.

Does he mean

remove all the hostname.xxx files

It's sol 8. Sun states this card is req for the sunblade and sol8

I have named them qfex etc.

card is a QFE x1033a, pn 595-4498-01

Yeah the hostname files.

did that already, qfe0-qfe3 and ifconfig returns this error:

ifconfig : status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS qfex : no such interface.

Also as mentioned, ifconfig chills upon boot .

just for grins tried naming them hmex etc with appropriate changes elsewhere.

yaak. system hard hung. Ouch. Had to kill power.

Note enet on board is eri0 not hme0 as on other Ultra platforms.

Tried variety of diff names is /etc/hosts, chkd netmasks, rebuilt nodename and nssx, etc files. Killed off daemons too..

Maybe a dev issue?

Your machine is looking for an interface named qfex? It should be looking for qfe0-qfe3. You can't use x for a qfe name.

I hope that helps.

should have mentioned this too - lights on quad green. Now if they were not maybe I'd have a bus interface problem. Had that once on older unit. I used to have to chk for the right driver on old solaris dist but on 7 it got fixed.

No I'm just saving typing. when I say qfex I mean qfe(1,2,3.....etc) Some of my boxes have several quad in them so ....

I see , my bad.

Have you tried the card in another machine/slot?

unfortunately it's the only sunblade100 here. Y'know, I am gonna try something else and I'll get back to you if it works. If your friend thinks of anything else post it and I'll check back later.

Thks for help. :D