installing NIC driver
Hi,
Sorry this is sort of a beginner's question:
I'm trying to set up my NIC card for my newly installed Solaris Express - build 24.
Everything went smoothly except that it did not recognize my NIC card - which is a RealTek 8110S.
I looked it up through the HCL and its status was that it was "reported to work" with the "gani" driver that i downloaded from http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
I tried to follow the directions provided with the driver -
But at the point in the install when i am supposed to enter
#devfsadm -i gani
I get the error message
"devfsadm: driver failed to attach: gani"
Can someone help me figure out why I am getting this error and what I need to do to fix it?
Any tips on completing the install and setting it up to work with DHCP would be appreciated.
I am installing this on an Athlon 64 3000+.
Thanks,
Luke
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lcpeng] at [2007-11-25 23:38:18]
# 1
Now, when it comes to this I am as much of a beginner as yourself so keep this in mind with my answers. Still, I don't think that command will work for you since it would configure the devices for a certain driver. But in order to do that this driver needs to present for the system to utilize.
You would be looking at "modload(1M)" and "modunload(1M)" to load and unload the specific drivers ('kernel modules') after which you would add support for specific devices to the kernel. After that the box should be able to reconfigure itself.
My try in this would be to add the driver using the "device configuration manager" which you get when you boot a x86 version (this is x86 right?). There it presents you with the option to add additional drivers, after having done that I'd see if the system hasn't detected this itself, otherwise try "touch /reconfigure" and reboot, or try the command above.
I hope this helps a bit.
LionO at 2007-7-5 18:22:12 >
