Urgent installation problem??!!

[dinduboy14]

hi all,

i am quiet new to solaris. anyway i am a vendor and i was at a customer place today and i installed solaris 8 on a Sun balde 150. Prior to that, SOlaris 8 was installed but i has to reinstall it again to change the slices etc..anyway i have installed Solaris 8 many times but this time i got this error message before, (taken from /var/adm/messages);

Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000
# Aug 11 11:28:24 a8610cu1 sendmail[227]: unable to qualify my own domain name (a8610cu1) -- using short name
Aug 11 11:28:27 a8610cu1 scmi2c: WARNING: card-reader0: CLK_CONTROL read ERROR: 0x00
Aug 11 11:28:27 a8610cu1 scmi2c: WARNING: Smart Card STC attach: Unable to find I2C internal reader!
Aug 11 12:26:35 a8610cu1 dtsession[400]: load_modules: can not open module /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1
Aug 11 12:27:27 a8610cu1 last message repeated 820 times
Aug 11 12:51:51 a8610cu1 fd: fd0: crc error blk 16
Aug 11 12:51:51 a8610cu1 dtsession[400]: load_modules: can not open module /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1
ufs read: I/O error
Aug 11 12:51:56 a8610cu1 last message repeated 24 times


I am referring to the "scmi2c: WARNING: card-reader0: CLK_CONTROL read ERROR: 0x00
Aug 11 11:28:27 a8610cu1 scmi2c: WARNING: Smart Card STC attach: Unable to find I2C internal reader!" problem...do you know what might be causing this? and can you tell me how to resolve it? i had installed Solaris 8 10/01 version and the lastest patch from the Sun website.

Also the other messages which appear..are they major problems or something i can close my eyes too.

Please help me out here.

Thansk and regards,
Dinesh Paul

 

[Apricot]

Looks like if the smart card reader driver can't "power up" smart
card HW, it tries to clean things up, but in the process it releases a mutex it
does'nt own.

 

[dinduboy14]

anyhelp on what can i do? also what is this smart card use for? is it very important for SOlaris? Thanks.

 

[syjl]

Isn't the 150 a fairly new machine?? I have a SunBlade 100 and, if I remember, it must have Solaris 2/02 or newer version. Some of the new hardware simply won't run on the older software due to architecture changes. Download the new stuff and see how it goes.

 

[Apricot]

The minimum operating system requirements for Smart Card Reader operation are Solaris 8 with Patches 108909-12, 109354-14, 109695-03, 109887-13, and 110457-05.


Smart Card on TS8 HW 12/02 Workaround
-------------------------------------
* Configure smart card using Smart Card Admin GUI
(/usr/dt/bin/sdtsmartcardadmin)

or

* Disable smart card with the following command
smartcard -c disable



For Information about Smart Card:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/Miscellaneous/MISC_SmartCard_SunBlade.html

Manuals 816-3217 and 816-3219 call 370-3933 Smart Card Reader v1.

Smart Card Reader 370-3933 supports single-sided card insertion.

Manuals 816-3217 and 816-3219 call 370-4666 Smart Card Reader v2.

Smart Card Reader 370-4666 supports double-sided card insertion

 

[dinduboy14]

hello all,

i have been told to install Solaris 8 02/02 whereas before i had installed just Solaris 8 10/01.

My question is, if i install SOlaris 10/01 with all the lestest patches...will it become a Solaris 8 02/02? or am i missing something crutial here. sorry for the wierd question. just trying to understand. Thanks!

 

[syjl]

No. Older Solaris 8 will not become newer Solaris 8 by patching. Newer machines cannot even boot from 10/01. They must have 2/02 or newer. May not solve your particular problem but why add to your isssues with old software.