Ok please bear with me as I'm a total newbie when it comes to sun hardware and solaris.
The ethernet adapter on my Ultra 10 doesn't show up in ifconfig -a and neither does it show up in the GUI tool. The only thing showing is the loopback lo0.
How can I assign an IP to my ethernet adapter? Is there some sort of command to start the interface? Maybe in the terminal before solaris boots or in solaris itself?
Message was edited by: Jive-Admin
Hello Robert,
please review the <b>Ultra 10 Service Manual</b> and read the trouble-shooting section
<a href="http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/ docs/Workstation_Products/Workstations/UltraSPARC_Workstations/ultra10/index.htm l" target="_blank">http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Workstation_Products/Workstations/UltraSPARC_Workstations/ultra10/ index.html</a>
Please post the output of show-devs and watch-net.
I'm a little short of time, maybe tomorrow ...
Michael
First, congrats in learning a new operating system.
Sounds like you are just bringing the box up new. Make sure that you have a good networking connection. Here is something very simple to do. I would recommend
running , as root, the following command:
/usr/sbin/sys-unconfig
This will clear the machine configuration and on reboot will ask questions about:
naming of the machine, IP address, netmask, and naming services(NIS+, NIS, DNS) and install a new root password.
Hope this is helpful
did you try to plumb it?
it is usualy hme0 on an ultra10, depending on /etc/path_to_inst and the type of network card
check dmesg for the correct instance
# dmesg | grep hme
to plumb it, do
# ifconfig hme0 plumb
if there is no /etc/hostname.hme0, the interface will not be automaticaly plumbed at boot.
Hi guys I just wanna say thanks for all the excellent replies but I've managed to solve the problem. I didn't choose the correct networking options during installation and it seems thats what was causing it.
It took me so long to reply because I keep the box in college and its been the easter break here for the past 2 weeks and I've not actually had access to the machine.
I'm using it for my project where i have to set up a fully functioning network. the box is up and running XAMPP with Apache, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin and ProFTPd. I hope I can set up sendmail and squirrelmail in the same way I have done at home on my Fedora Linux virtual machine.
