mknod error when pkgadd of SUNWqfed

[csgonan]

I am trying to install a second quad FE card in a sparcstation 20. There is a quad ethernet card in there right now, which is live.

I ran the pkgadd command to install the SUNWqfed and SUNWqfedu packages. When the SUNWqfed package was being installed I noticed an error

Executing postinstall script
Usage: mknod name [b/c major/minor] [p] failed Postinstall script did not complete successfully.

I uninstalled the package and tried it again but it still failed, and I tried another downloaded copy of the packages with the same error. I also saw that the path_to_install file did not have the entries for the qfe card.

Any idea how I can fix this and install the card?

Thank you

 

[csgonan]

I discovered there was no name_to_major entry in the file for qfe. When I added it, the driver packages installed fine.

Just a note: For some reason the first reboot hung (even without video) so I put in a cd, power up and the system booted fine.

I had to set the local_mac_address? true property even though the existing quad card didn't require that.

 

[Annihilannic]

Why did you need to install the SUNWqfe packages if there was an existing, working, qfe in the system? It would have been using the same driver package.

Annihilannic.