Re: generic drivers?

From: Andrew Gabriel (andrew_at_cucumber.demon.co.uk)
Date: 08/26/03


Date: 26 Aug 2003 15:28:02 GMT

In article <3aB2b.23193$ZG2.704269@wagner.videotron.net>,
        "Inet pseudonym" <tetrasys1@hotmail.com> writes:
> I have an Adaptec ANA6944 quad LAN card I would like to know
> if I can use in my Ultra30. I do not see any drivers for
> Solaris on Adaptec's site and being new to things UNIX would
> like to know if there is anything like (cough,cough)
> Microsoft's plug 'n pray to assign a generic driver. My
> ultimate goal would be moving the DHCP service from my
> router to the Ultra30 with different networks on each port
> then having VLANs on my Cisco 2900XL isolating my kid's PCs
> from my own. Am I dreaming in Technicolor?

I think that card was basically a PCI-PCI bridge with four
of the Digital Tulip chips on the other side. It should
work fine on Solaris x86 (no extra drivers needed).
Sun did not ship a Digital Tulip driver for sparc, but if
you can find one from someone else, then it would probably
work on sparc, although I am not aware of any such driver.

-- 
Andrew Gabriel


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