Once again this list comes through with blinding speed. I had 9
responses to my question before I even saw the question show up
in my mailbox.
The answer to my problem is that you have to "plumb" the interface
before you can do anything else, by typing "ifconfig qe0 plumb".
Things would also have worked if I had blindly assumed that the
card was functional and had created a "/etc/hostname.qe0" file
and had let the system configure the interface during the boot
process.
Many thanks to the following:
Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>
clifford thurber <cliffordt@raremedium.com>
"Tom Lichti" <Tom_Lichti@interactivemedia.com>
"Kruse, Jason K." <jason.kruse@teldta.com>
Johnie Stafford <stafforj@core.afcc.com>
Chris Graves <cmg@bow.rsc.raytheon.com>
"Reichert, Alan" <aareichert@tasc.com>
Patrick Hooper <phooper@nebs.com>
and thanks to anyone whose reponse has not yet reached my mailbox.
Original question:
> Help!
>
> I have an old sparc-20 running Solaris 2.5.1 and I need to install a
> multi-port ethernet card in it. I have a Sun quad ethernet card so I
> figured that would work just fine. I shut down the machine, installed
> the card, and rebooted using "boot -r". However, the system does not
> seem to recognize the interfaces. When I run the "sysinfo" program it
> shows me the following entry for the card:
>
> qec0 is a "Sun Quad Ethernet Controller (SUNW,595-3198)"
>
> but it doesn't show anything for any of the four interfaces. When
> I try to configure any of the interfaces I get the following error:
>
> # ifconfig qe0 192.168.200.1 up
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: qe0: no such interface
>
> When I first tried this I did not have an ethernet cable plugged in so
> I thought that might be the problem but then I plugged in a cable and
> that had no effect. I have tried moving the ethernet cable to each of
> the four interfaces and running ifconfig on the interface but that has
> no effect other than the fact that the link status light came on for
> each of the four ports. The only patches I have installed are the
> recommended patch bundle. If it would make any difference I can
> upgrade the machine to either Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7.
-- David H. Brierley Raytheon Systems Company - Portsmouth RI Facility Work: dhb@ssd.ray.com Home: dave@galaxia.com
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