SUMMARY: solaris on laptop - network card

From: David Stern <dstern_at_tsi-telsys.com>
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 08:30:50 EDT
Original Query:
> I have an old satellite laptop with solaris 2.6 installed. It has a
> 100baseT netgear card but doesn't seem to pick it up for configuring
> under boot -r, dmeg, ifconfig -a. I suspect the kernel may have to be
> recompiled with a new driver. Anyone have any experience with this
> combination of hardware?

Thanks to

Joseph McCall
Jerry Kemp 
Tom Jones
Michael Lapierre
Marco Greene

et al


There seemed to be some concensus that Sun may support only a 10BaseT
3Com card. Fortunately, this machine will be going away soon so this
isn't much of an issue. I may either use a 3com card or perhaps see if
I can get it to use PPP over the modem card.

Some useful URLs:
http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/usenet/Solaris/0460.html
http://www.riddleware.com/solx86/solarisx86.html
http://www.geocities.com/~gregl/htm/solaris.htm


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 David Stern                                    TSI TelSys 
 Manager, Information Technology                410-872-3906
Received on Thu Jul 5 13:30:50 2001

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