SunFastEthernet Transceiver Card

[mvdejong]

Guys,

I can get some of the cards mentioned in the subject, part-no 501-2646, to upgrade a varied set of older Sunnies to 100 Mbps.

My problem is that I am getting worried about them, because I cannot find exactly what they are, they are clearly not the
X1056 (501-2655 / SunFastEthernet Adapter 1.x / BigMac / be-driver)
X1059 (501-2919 / SunFastEthernet Adapter 2.x / HappyMeal / hme-driver)
Having spend about a rather bleak dozen hours with 7 different search-engines, I hope you can tell me :
- are these proper 100 Mbps cards or something very weird ?
- which driver is appropriate ?
and if you're writing away anyway and know it :
- which BIOSes support them (would they fit even an IPC or IPX)
- which versions of Solaris support them (I know the be-drivers were dropped after 2.6).

Of course I would love to put in the X1059's, but the monetary differences make a lot of effort to use the 501-2646's worthwile.

Thanks in advance,

Michiel

 

[mvdejong]

OK, found out what was the matter.
The reported part-number 501-2646 is the part-number of the piggyback-board that contains the UTP-connector with it's transceiver. The actual card with the MII-connector is the ordinary BigMac 501-2655 a.k.a. X1056A.

I've got them, and have them working in Solaris 7 (2.7) systems using the copied /kernel/drv/be from a 2.6 installation-CD (package SUNWcsr) with a modified postinstall for the QFE-controller from the 2.7 installation CD (package SUNWqfed).
Does that wire go into there ? Or does it go into there ? Oops, wrong guess !