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Where to get NIC drivers for solaris 10 5/09

Recently installed solaris 10 successfully and now i want to connect to Internet but solaris 10 doesn't comeup with NIC.somebody help me to get RTL8101E fast enthernet driver/Intel Pro Wireless 4965agn driver
Thanks in advance

There is a tool that will answer to that question:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp

Most third party network drivers are downloadable from here: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/

Where to get NIC drivers fro solaris 10 5/09

Thanks for your reply
I downloaded rf-1.1.0.tar.gz driver from the link you have mentioned in above post but when i am trying to install getting many errors
here are some of the errors

Code:

bash-3.0# gunzip rf-1.1.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -

bash-3.0# cd rf-1.1.0

bash-3.0# rm obj Makefile

bash-3.0# ln -s  Makefile.${KARCH}_${COMPILER} Makefile

ln: cannot create Makefile:file exists

Nothing I did after untar the directory,the directory typically contains

Code:

total 446

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      1592 Jul 16  2006 COPYING

lrwxrwxrwx  1 111      staff        17 Sep  9 16:48 Makefile -> Makefile.i386_gcc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        559 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.amd64_gcc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        567 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.amd64_suncc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      2594 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.common

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        289 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.config

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        360 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.i386_gcc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        365 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.i386_suncc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        630 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.macros

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        362 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.sparc_gcc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        367 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.sparc_suncc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        566 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.sparcv9_gcc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff        575 Jul 16  2006 Makefile.sparcv9_suncc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      6661 Jul 16  2006 README.japanese-euc

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      5134 Jul 16  2006 README.txt

-rwxr-xr-x  1 111      staff        762 Jul 16  2006 adddrv.sh

drwxr-xr-x  2 111      staff        512 Jul 16  2006 amd64

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      98767 Jul 16  2006 gem.c

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      15358 Jul 16  2006 gem.h

drwxr-xr-x  2 111      staff        512 Jul 16  2006 i386

-rw-r--r--  1 root    root          0 Sep  9 16:51 list.txt

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      4131 Jul 16  2006 mii.h

lrwxrwxrwx  1 111      staff          4 Sep  9 16:48 obj -> i386

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      45544 Jul 16  2006 rf_gem.c

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      11167 Jul 16  2006 rtl8139reg.h

drwxr-xr-x  2 111      staff        512 Jul 16  2006 sparc

drwxr-xr-x  2 111      staff        512 Jul 16  2006 sparcv9

bash-3.0#/usr/ccs/bin/make install

make:Fatal error:Don't know how to make target 'install'

so any idea?

Quote:

Originally Posted by srinivasmiriyalu (Post 3675665)

Thanks for your reply
I downloaded rf-1.1.0.tar.gz driver from the link you have mentioned in above post but when i am trying to install getting many errors
here are some of the errors

Code:

bash-3.0# gunzip rf-1.1.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -

bash-3.0# cd rf-1.1.0

bash-3.0# rm obj Makefile

bash-3.0# ln -s  Makefile.${KARCH}_${COMPILER} Makefile

ln: cannot create Makefile:file exists

Nothing I did after untar the directory,the directory typically contains

Code:

total 446

-r--r--r--  1 111      staff      1592 Jul 16  2006 COPYING

lrwxrwxrwx  1 111      staff        17 Sep  9 16:48 Makefile -> Makefile.i386_gcc



bash-3.0#/usr/ccs/bin/make install

make:Fatal error:Don't know how to make target 'install'

so any idea?

Did you look at the listing? The link "ln" command failed, because a Makefile was already present. Type in "rm -f Makefile", then do the link again. Then type in "make". A "make install" option may not be present in that program.

I wonder if the README.txt file explains how to compile and install the driver. :scratch:

Where to get NIC drivers for solaris 10 5/09

thanks for your reply and walked upto make and make install successfully
when i am trying to load module it came up with below meggase

Code:

bash-3.00# rm obj Makefile

bash-3.00# ln -s Makefile.i386_gcc Makefile

bash-3.00# ln -s i386 obj

bash-3.00# /usr/ccs/bin/make

bash-3.00# /usr/ccs/bin/make install

/usr/sbin/install -f /kernel/drv -m 755 -u root -g sys i386/rf

new owner is root

i386/rf installed as /kernel/drv/rf

bash-3.00# ./adddrv.sh

("pci10ec,8139") already in use as a driver or alias.

bash-3.00# rm /kernel/drv/r

ramdisk      rds          rf            rtls

ramdisk.conf  rds.conf      rge          rtls.conf

random        rdsib        rpcib        rts

random.conf  rdsib.conf    rpcib.conf    rts.conf

bash-3.00# rm /kernel/drv/rf

bash-3.00# mod

modinfo    modload    modunload

bash-3.00# modload obj/rf

can't load module: Invalid argument

bash-3.00#

so here I stucked..

Then reboot and have a look if the rf0 interface can be plumbed.

Code:

# ifconfig rf0 plumb

Where to get NIC drivers for solaris 10 5/09

got error which says

Code:

bash-3.0#ifconfig rf0 plumb

ifconfig:plumb:rf0:No such file or directory

Are you sure you installed a driver matching your hardware ?

What says

Code:

/usr/X11/bin/scanpci

Where to get NIC drivers for solaris 10 5/09

this is the output for /use/X11/bin/scanpci

Code:

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2a00

 Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2a02

 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2a03

 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1a function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2834

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1a function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2835

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1a function 0x07: vendor 0x8086 device 0x283a

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1b function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x284b

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1c function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x283f

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1c function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2841

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1c function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2843

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2830

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2831

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2832

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x07: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2836

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1e function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2448

 Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2815

 Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2828

 Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller



pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x03: vendor 0x8086 device 0x283e

 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller



pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x4229

 Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection



pci bus 0x0006 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10ec device 0x8136

 Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller



pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x07 function 0x00: vendor 0x104c device 0x8039

 Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller



pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x07 function 0x01: vendor 0x104c device 0x803a

 Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller



pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x07 function 0x02: vendor 0x104c device 0x803b

 Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

Your ethernet card should be supported out of the box with the rge driver.
You wifi one with the iwk one but that one probably only works with OpenSolaris based distributions.

Where to get NIC drivers for solaris 10 5/09

So do I need to download rge driver?

"Out of the box" meant you are likely to already have it.

Where to get NIC drivers for solaris 10 5/09

I dont think so,when i typed command ifconfig -a it comeup with only lo interface and nothing more else,as per your post if it is bundled with solaris how can i find?

Under Solaris, interfaces only show up if they are plumbed.
Try:

Code:

devfsadm -v

ifconfig rge0 plumb

ifconfig -a