loadedmind
Technical User
Hey all. To make a long story short, I successfully installed a NetGear FA311 NIC in my Intel Solaris 8 box using the sfe drivers from the Japanese fellow. I know I successfully installed it because "ifconfig -a" shows the lo0 loopback correctly as well as the sfe0 device showing the IP address and broadcast address information correctly. I have it working successfully at the school I'm going to, so I'm pretty confident my files in the /etc directory are accurate:
/etc/defaultrouter
/etc/defaultdomain
/etc/nodename
/etc/netmasks*
/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname.
/etc/hostname.sfe0
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/resolv.conf
The only one I'm unsure of is the /etc/netmasks file since my configuration at the house is obviously different than school, which has DHCP'ed private IP's using the 192.168.0.0 addresses. Since I don't believe in providing static IP addresses publicly, I'll modify my own IP's enough, but not too far off their original numbers. I have 4 usable static IP's with one as the default gateway for my DSL router provided by my ISP (Linkmax Broadmax router set as routed LLC PPPoA).
We'll say my default gateway IP is 214.150.42.68. The usables are 214.150.42.63 - 214.150.42.66. The IP I've given my Solaris box is 214.150.42.64. My /etc/netmasks looks like this, after the commented section, of course:
214.150.42.255 255.255.255.0
I have a sneaking suspicion this is incorrect, but can't be sure. I've also tried commenting this line out, as well as using 214.150.42.0 and 214.150.0.0. Each time I modify anything, I do a "touch /reconfigure", then "reboot". Something I find that's unusual is that each time, I get a blue screen from Solaris requesting that something be modified as a result of something changing. The only things it found that I can actually change, however, are the monitor type, video card and keyboard. I get the "Is this Display Correct?" afterwards and it then allows me to login to my Solaris 8 environment. I was very cautious in modifying each /etc file, ensuring that there was no unnecessary space below each line of each file as this has thrown off the config here at school. I've also tried installing the 3Com XL 3C905C-TX card which is supposedly supported as per the Solaris HCL. I get the same situation with the ifconfig -a command, which states that the card has the right IP and should work, but doesn't ping out. I can ping my own IP's obviously (214.150.42.64 & 127.0.0.1 is alive), but can't ping my default gateway or any other computer on my LAN or google.com, obviously. The computer I'm using is an HP Pavilion 700c. I had no problems during install. If anyone can help, I'd sure be grateful!
/etc/defaultrouter
/etc/defaultdomain
/etc/nodename
/etc/netmasks*
/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname.
/etc/hostname.sfe0
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/resolv.conf
The only one I'm unsure of is the /etc/netmasks file since my configuration at the house is obviously different than school, which has DHCP'ed private IP's using the 192.168.0.0 addresses. Since I don't believe in providing static IP addresses publicly, I'll modify my own IP's enough, but not too far off their original numbers. I have 4 usable static IP's with one as the default gateway for my DSL router provided by my ISP (Linkmax Broadmax router set as routed LLC PPPoA).
We'll say my default gateway IP is 214.150.42.68. The usables are 214.150.42.63 - 214.150.42.66. The IP I've given my Solaris box is 214.150.42.64. My /etc/netmasks looks like this, after the commented section, of course:
214.150.42.255 255.255.255.0
I have a sneaking suspicion this is incorrect, but can't be sure. I've also tried commenting this line out, as well as using 214.150.42.0 and 214.150.0.0. Each time I modify anything, I do a "touch /reconfigure", then "reboot". Something I find that's unusual is that each time, I get a blue screen from Solaris requesting that something be modified as a result of something changing. The only things it found that I can actually change, however, are the monitor type, video card and keyboard. I get the "Is this Display Correct?" afterwards and it then allows me to login to my Solaris 8 environment. I was very cautious in modifying each /etc file, ensuring that there was no unnecessary space below each line of each file as this has thrown off the config here at school. I've also tried installing the 3Com XL 3C905C-TX card which is supposedly supported as per the Solaris HCL. I get the same situation with the ifconfig -a command, which states that the card has the right IP and should work, but doesn't ping out. I can ping my own IP's obviously (214.150.42.64 & 127.0.0.1 is alive), but can't ping my default gateway or any other computer on my LAN or google.com, obviously. The computer I'm using is an HP Pavilion 700c. I had no problems during install. If anyone can help, I'd sure be grateful!