Hello everybody!
I have following question please:
I am working on a Sun Blade 100 with Solaris 10. In this blade a SUNpci2 card exists.
So, is it possible to use this card? I tried SUNWspci2 (2.3), but I got some errors. I tried to patch it, but it does not work. Or have I to downgrade on solaris 8?
Could please be anyone so kind, and help me?
Thanks in advance,
Gerald
is it possible to use this card? I tried SUNWspci2 (2.3), but I got some errors. I tried to patch it, but it does not work.
Did you even thought about searching the internet ?
Entering sunpci +"Solaris 10" as keywords returns several hits.
http://blog.ekholm.org/2005/02/04/solaris-10-sunpci-ii-tricks/
http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2006-April/007243.html
Michael
Hello Michael,
Do you really think I did not already look for a solution at the www?
Why do you think I post in this forum? To get furher information.
Thanks for your links but I already tested it. Without any success.
I still get the message,
...Sorry, SunPCI does not run on Solaris 2.5.1...
What do you think about this?
Thanks
Sorry guys for my ignorance, but I am a newbie in the solaris world. Also thank you for your link, but I really would need a step by step explanation to fix this "shity" bug. I tried to link like
ln -s sunpcidrv.280 sunpcidrv.2100 and
ln -s sunpcidrv.280.64 sunpcidrv.2100.64 at
/opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris
but after a ./sunpcload and a /bin/sunpci i still got this error.
I really don't know what i make wrong.
All you're going to get is suggestions for, and pointers to, work-arounds.
The SunPCi2 card is not a supported peripheral under Solaris 10(SPARC).
It's not supposed to work, though the modifications shown by Michael seem to succeed.
If you have the time to experiment...
Install Solaris 9 and then install the coprocessor board and its software.
[url=http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Software/](Solaris downloads are here)[/url]
Observe whatever you need to do to get it working.
Then go back to these work-arounds and edit whatever you need to do for Solaris 10.
While searching for quotable sources, I had found a weblog entry by someone who explained he got the SunPCi 2 working by installing Solaris 9, then the SunPCi 2 package (SUNWspci2)/hardware and finally he upgraded to Solaris 10.
Regarding your error message: I have reviewed the sunpcload and sunpci scripts. None of these scripts contains this message.
Michael
