Install NIC Broadcom 440x Solaris 10 06/06 X86
 

driver not attached??

seems it's looking for instance name and I cant find it with #prtconf :confused: does any one know how ?

try: /usr/X11/bin/scanpci

#ifconfig bnx2[instance_number] plumb ?? what is an instance number and how can I find it?

Can you provide some context about your question ?

What was returned by scanpci ?

Where did you find this bnx2 driver ?

An instance number is likely to be 0, assuming you have only one device of this kind.

problem solved . I found another driver and it's work fine.

Good to know.
Can you share with the rest of us what was the problem and how did you solve it ?

yes sure,

I tried to install it with original driver which I download it from broadcom site but it doesn't work! so while i'm searchin on the net I found another driver bfe.x.x.tar which is work fine .

so any one have problem with it try to install this driver :D .

http://www.zshare.net/download/bfe-2-3-0a-tar-gz.html

Thanks for the info :)

hello mate
 

iam new to solaris. could u plz tell me how to install the driver?

Welcome to LQ.

What is the driver you are trying to install ? bfe ? bnx ? another one ?

What is your NIC ?

hi everybody

Can you tell me the bfe driver can drive Broadcome bcm5700 NIC in Solaris 10?


and the detail install process.

Thanks a lot

Guys,

Read this webpage carefully and follow the procedure.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features..._to_driver.jsp

Here is some Broadcom specific info from the reseller:
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/too...risrelease.txt

Cheers, C

coolster

Thanks a lot , you are great!!!

I have readed the sun webpage word by word.and review my system .
I have installed Broadcom bcm5700 driver in this system.and I visited the /etc/driver_aliases ,
I can find bcme "pci14e4 1644" this is the Broadcom NIC pciid,it's right.
but when I #ifconfig bcme0 plumb up
the error is
ifconfig : plumb : bcme0: no such interface

why ? could you help me ?

Thanks a lot

and also
I have 2 PE4600 server. The another one after I installed Solaris 10, I do not install the Broadcom drive .The default Broadcom aliase is bge0.
I can bring it up use #ifconfig bge0 plumb up
and
#ifconfig bge0 192.168.101.153 netmask 255.255.255.0
the all ok but can not connect to the network. ping itself is ok ,but can't ping any others,The other one can't ping it also.
it very confusion me .

First check if the driver module really is loaded by using "modinfo": modinfo | grep bcme
If it isn't, use modload.
However, you should ask yourself why the driver is not loaded.... (did you issue the command "devfsadm -i <driver>" after installation of the driver, and did you reboot the box after that?).

By the way: the right order of commands in bringing the interface to work is:

#ifconfig -a
#ifconfig <intname> plumb
#ifconfig <intname> inet <ipnumber> netmask <number>
#ifconfig <intname> up

Some commands may be combined, others not.

I think you are not entirely done with the network configuration:

/etc/hostname.bcme0
/etc/hosts
/etc/netmasks
/etc/defaultrouter

And then the dns stuff in /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf

I suggest you first try to configure the network so that everything works from bootime. On the other hand, if you are workin an older Build of Solaris 10, you may suffer from an old bug:

Although, the /etc/inet/ipnodes files is primarily for IPv6 only, without adding an entry to the file, the IP address (IPv4) doesn’t become active. This seems to be a known problem but the good news is this is now fixed in the Solaris 10 U4 (08/07 build).

Cheers, C