Alok Aggarwal's Weblog
Wednesday August 29, 2007 |
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Marvell Ethernet on Solaris
ethernet card that doesn't work out of the box on OpenSolaris. The bundled SK98sol driver is old and dated. The new driver must be downloaded either from Sysconnect in the case of 64-bit or from Marvell in the case of 32-bit. Update -- if you're doing this on a laptop, you want to download the driver for "PCI Express Desktop Adapter" from the Sysconnect website. After downloading the driver, the pre-existing SK98sol package needs to be removed prior to adding the downloaded SKGEsol package (remember to also remove the 'sk98sol' entries from /etc/driver_aliases). Once the SKGEsol package has been added Solaris needs to be informed about the new driver by doing the following - - Get the PCI vendor ID for the ethernet card by either running 'prtconf -v' or '/usr/X11/bin/scanpci'. The pci id for my machine was 'pciex11ab,4363' - Either use 'add_drv' or 'update_drv' to associate that pci id with the skge driver. Something like this - # rem_drv skge # add_drv -m '* 0660 root sys' -i '"pciex11ab,4363"' skge The driver should now attach and ready to be plumbed. ( Sep 06 2007, 11:56:54 AM EDT / Aug 29 2007, 03:00:00 PM EDT ) Permalink Trackback: http://blogs.sun.com/aalok/entry/marvell_ethernet_on_solaris |
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