nge0 works in WinXP but not under OpenSolaris I never got the onboard ethernet working on that new box - kanigix. At times nge0 would come up, but then it decided to stay down. I've mainly stayed in WinXP (remember it is for playing games with my son or by myself) or gotten things over via an USB harddrive. You can imagine that gets old.
Well, I have a bug filed on this and I'm off to Connectathon 2007 on Tuesday. I want to be able to access the box while I'm gone. I added a serial console, so I would at least be able to do some simple commands to help debug the issue. And then, a thought smacked me, why can't I add an ethernet card to it? So I picked one at random from my pile of old cards - I ended up getting a cheap GigE card. I thought I was getting a solid 10/100 card. But WinXP installed a driver and the Sun Device Detection Tool said there was a driver. And now I've got a working system:
[tdh@kanigix ~]> ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
rge0: flags=201000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.2.115 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
Aahhh. I'm really glad, because this machine is quiet and builds scream on it.
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Posted by Steven Scharf on January 29, 2007 at 11:15 AM CST #
Steve,
I've tried these scenarios - I was trying to replicate why I was able to get it to work at all the first couple of installs.
The fact that it was working at all means that I'm hoping it is a bug which can be fixed.
Thanks for the tips!
Tom
Posted by Tom Haynes on January 29, 2007 at 11:30 AM CST #
I have the similar problem too. When I try the opensolaris develop express it pop-up a MessageBox "Took interface nge0 down", and sometimes the NIC is OK, when I try the WinXP and Linux Distro the NIC is OK. I have no idea and plan to add another pci NIC too. But the problem seems very strange, and I pray the Nvidia MCP61 NIC's driver update soon...
Posted by nickzhou on October 16, 2007 at 09:26 AM CDT #