Network on X86 with Sol8

[wtrepani]

All,

I have a problem I can't seem to get by. I have an IBM M41 series pc I am trying to load Sol 8 on. I can get it working and all, everything but the network. It has an Intel i815-82559 card in it. I found some things online about this card, but nothing real pertinent. What happens is it doesn't seem to want to see the network. I plugged that same cable into my pc and it works. When I run snoop -d iprb0 against it, all I get is:

dpywasu1 -> (broadcast) ARP C Who is 10.20.190.1, 10.20.190.1 ?

This is when I ping the gateway (same network, netmast of 255.255.255.0) by ip. I can't seem to get ndd to work against this device either. I did hard set the switch port to 10/half to be safe. Is shows a connection, I just can't get it working.

Any help would be appreciated.

Will

 

[bpinos]

Your syntax looks correct for your ndd command. Check out this site:

http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-0222/6m6nmlsvg?a=view

 

[wtrepani]

Thanks.

I found this info the in sol8 man page for iprb. I did try setting the duplex in the /kernel/drv/iprb.conf file to 10HDX, and setting the switch port to the same hoping it was an autonegotiate conflict, but that was also to no avail.

Will

 

[wtrepani]

For anyone who was following this thread. I finally got past the network problem. Apparently, the new IBM netvista's, (in the black cases) are not solaris compatible. I tried three different models and had the exact same problem with every network card I tried. when I went back to a netvista in the white box, it works great with the same version and the same nics. Just an FYI.

Will