Second i/f in an Ultra 10

I want to add a second NIC to an Ultra 10. Can I use a standard 3Com 10/100 NIC or does it have to be a Sun i/f? The Ultra 10 has a PCI bus that uses standard National Instruments PCI/GPIB cards.

[216 byte] By [blasher] at [2007-11-25 22:42:19]

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# 1

I have installed a 3com 10/100 NIC in my Ultra 10 - I needed to use a driver which I found here:

<a href="http://www.confusioncentral.com/ethernet/ethernet.html" target="_blank">http://www.confusioncentral.com/ethernet/ethernet.html</a >

installation instructions are included.

My only problem now is that when I:

ifconfig dgc0 plumb

ifconfig dgc0 inet x.x.x.x

iconfig dgc0 up

while hme0 is also up Solaris freezes completely after about 30 seconds (in those thirty seconds both interfaces work properly - each nic is connected to one of two PCs running Linux). Even with hme0 unplumbed dgc0 doesn't work for long without the same effect, so it may be the driver isn't quite right for the card I have...

I'd love to know how you get on!

astrometria at 2007-7-5 14:21:05 >

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# 2

Current PCI 3Com network cards will not work in Sun SPARC-based systems.

Their functionality is not recognized by OBP, so the OS will never "see" them.

Glance at 3Com's web site and try to find a driver - which would only have been written for the x86 port of the OS.

You will need to install one of these (try eBay if there is no coverage by a service contract):

<a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U10/ components.html#Ethernet" target="_blank">Ultra-10 components list in the Sun System Handbook</a>

For more discussions on this, use the search function in the Hardware forums. <a href="http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/" target="_blank">http://supportforum.sun.com/hardware/</a>using keyword 3com

(Sorry, but you put faith into a web site that has <i>confusion</i> in its web name?)

Bill at 2007-7-5 14:21:05 >

# 3

(Sorry, but you put faith into a web site that has confusion in its web name?) you're completely right about that!

astrometria at 2007-7-5 14:21:05 >

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