Re: Can't see second ethernet interface

From: Lars Tunkrans (lars.tunkrans_at_bredband.net)
Date: 12/26/03 

Date: 26 Dec 2003 07:25:44 -0800

srp336@getcoactive.com (Steve Pfister) wrote in message news:<45126e60.0312252007.519cd7aa@posting.google.com>...
> I'm trying to reconstruct a crashed server (Solaris 2.6). Everything
> is mostly back and working after copying everything to a new drive and
> restoring two partitions from backup. The only thing wrong is that it
> only shows the built-in ethernet interface and not the second ethernet
> interface which is on a pci card. If I boot the machine from a cd,
> both interfaces (hme0 and hme1) show up and I can assign addresses to
> them and they function as expected, so I'm thinking it's a config
> issue and not a hardware problem. But nothing I do seems to get it to
> work. How can I get my second ethernet back?

  
  First do a reconfigureation boot:

   # reboot -- -r

   Do you see the hme1 device now ?

   If not go on .....

  Warning --- This is not safe advise ---- Warning.

   What I do if I have managed to screw up the configuration so far
   that a reconfiguration boot dont recover it, ( you have done a
   reconfiguraton boot I assume ???? !!!! ) is that I save the
   /etc/path_to_inst file on a backup ( floppy/tape/cdrom )
   then empty the file but do not delete it.

   Then I again do a reconfiguration boot to make the OBP/solaris
   Rewrite the /etc/path_to_inst file from scratch. This is
   effectively what happens when you put the Install CD-ROM in a
   brand new machine and install it the first time around.

   This is dangerous as YOU MAY end up with different device names
    on your diskdrives.

   It is not, I say again NOT a supported procedure but usually works.

   If it does not work you can boot from the Install CD-ROM and restore
    you backup copy of the previous /etc/path_to_inst file.

    //Lars