My original question:
> We are upgrading parts of our network to Fast Ethernet and that has brought
> up a question about the SunFastEthernet 2.0 board. According to Sun's web
> page, this board is supported under Solaris 1.1.2 for the following systems:
> SPARCstation 4, 5, 10, 20 and LX, SPARCclassic and SPARCserver 6x0MP.
>
> We are running Solaris 1.x on SPARCstation IPCs as file servers. Can anyone
> tell me if there is a technical reason why the IPC is not among those listed
> above? Is anyone using the SunFastEthernet 2.0 board in an IPC?
>
> If the SunFastEthernet 2.0 board will not operate in an IPC, is there a third
> party board that will?
The answer:
Sun does not provide fast ethernet drivers for the sun4c architecture under
Solaris 1.x. They are only provided for the sun4m architecture.
Many thanks to those who responded:
Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>
Brad Young <bbyoung@amoco.com>
miked@fujitsu.com.au (Mike Daffey)
jeffw@triple-i.com (Jeff Wasilko)
---Bob.
-- Bob Hoffman, N3CVL University of Pittsburgh Tel: +1 412 624 8490 hoffman@cs.pitt.edu Department of Computer Science Fax: +1 412 624 8854
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