Re: SQEC on solaris 9
From: wasi (wasi_at_imos.net)
Date: 09/19/03
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Date: 18 Sep 2003 22:45:21 -0700
wasi@imos.net (wasi) wrote in message news:<d466d257.0309181242.2d9680f2@posting.google.com>...
> Beardy <beardy@beardy.net> wrote in message news:<nHP9b.6603$vX3.908520@wards.force9.net>...
> > "Michael Vilain " wrote:
> > > In article <d466d257.0309160744.5d47c1c0@posting.google.com>,
> > > wasi@imos.net (wasi) wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I'm about to install a Quad Ethernet Controller (SQEC/S 501-2062) in
> > >>my Ultra 2 using Solaris 9.
> > >>
> > >>As this hardware has reached the end of live cycle within solaris 9, I
> > >>am looking for a solution to use the now unsupported QEC.
> > >>
> > >>Is there anyone who can give me some advice, or what suits me best,
> > >>send me a location, where I can download this drivers for solaris9?
> > >
> > >
> > > If SUN has a policy of releasing their drivers to GPL or freeware or PD
> > > after they've been EOL'd, I've not heard of it. I thought that if it
> > > was EOL, there were no drivers offered for Solaris 9. You can run it on
> > > Solaris 8 where there are drivers, but not Solaris 9 unless you obtain
> > > 3rd-party drivers. Do such drivers exist or are you going to have to
> > > roll your own?
> > >
> >
> > I have used the Solaris 8 drivers for QE happily on Solaris 9. Get the
> > /kernel/drv and/or /kernel/drv/sparcv9 files in, do appropriate add_drv
> > commands, make sure that /etc/name_to_major looks OK (qe and qec use 103
> > and 104 on my system, but on yours...), do a reconfig boot with the H/W
> > in place, and try to plumb a qe interface.
> >
> > If you want a Solaris 9 supported piece of hardware,get QFE...
>
> Beardy,
> Thx for your hints, but I have continued problems. I am not an expert
> in Solaris HW management, so I obviously did something wrong :-(
>
> OK, I put the solaris8 qe and qec drivers into /kernel/dev/sparcv9
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 10808 Sep 18 18:44 qec
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 49808 Sep 18 18:44 qe
>
> I replaced the entries 103/104 (the old ones I did not have in my box)
> in
> /etc/name_to_major to:
> qe 103
> qec 104
>
> After a reconfiguration boot I got this:
> add_drv -f -v qec
> Driver (qec) is already installed.
> add_drv -f -v qe
> Driver (qe) is already installed.
>
> OK and now I got this error:
>
> ifconfig plumb qe0
> ifconfig: qe0: bad address
>
>
>
> Here are some additional infos:
> Output from:
> modinfo |grep qe
>
> 146 1341795 6512 103 1 qe (Quad-MACE Ethernet Driver v1.80)
> 147 13473cf ba0 104 1 qec (QEC driver v1.32)
>
>
> Output from:
> ls -l /dev/qe
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Sep 18 19:17 qe ->
> ../devices/pseudo/clone@0:qe
>
> Output from:
> ls -l clone\@0\:qe
> crw------- 1 root sys 11,103 Sep 18 19:17 clone@0:qe
>
> Output from:
> dmesg |grep qe
>
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qec0 at sbus0: SBus0
> slot 0x0 offset 0x20000 and slot 0x0 offset 0x40000 SBus level 4
> sparc9 ipl
> 7
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qec0 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qe0 at qec0: SBus0
> slot 0x0 offset 0x0 and slot 0x10 offset 0x0
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qe0 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000/qe@0,0
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qe1 at qec0: SBus0
> slot 0x1 offset 0x0 and slot 0x11 offset 0x0
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qe1 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000/qe@1,0
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qe2 at qec0: SBus0
> slot 0x2 offset 0x0 and slot 0x12 offset 0x0
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qe2 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000/qe@2,0
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qe3 at qec0: SBus0
> slot 0x3 offset 0x0 and slot 0x13 offset 0x0
> Sep 18 19:17:39 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qe3 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000/qe@3,0
> Sep 18 21:20:30 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qe0 at qec0: SBus0
> slot 0x0 offset 0x0 and slot 0x10 offset 0x0
> Sep 18 21:20:30 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qe0 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000/qe@0,0
> Sep 18 21:20:30 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qe1 at qec0: SBus0
> slot 0x1 offset 0x0 and slot 0x11 offset 0x0
> Sep 18 21:20:30 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qe1 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000/qe@1,0
> Sep 18 21:20:30 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qe2 at qec0: SBus0
> slot 0x2 offset 0x0 and slot 0x12 offset 0x0
> Sep 18 21:20:30 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qe2 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000/qe@2,0
> Sep 18 21:20:30 sunny sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] qe3 at qec0: SBus0
> slot 0x3 offset 0x0 and slot 0x13 offset 0x0
> Sep 18 21:20:30 sunny genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qe3 is
> /sbus@1f,0/qec@0,20000/qe@3,0
>
> Where did I something wrong?
> Can you please help me? Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thx in advance
>
> Michael
oh, what a bummer :-/
everything is working fine!
once again reboot, and the interface was correct(!) plumbed (ifconfig qe0 plumb).
Thx again
Michael
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