Solaris x86 Dlink Network adapter gone missing

jlliagre · 02-07-2007, 07:41 AM

These are the boot messages I was talking about, unfortunately, your card doesn't show-up there.
I can't explain why.
I guess you already checked the card still works under another O/S on the same computer.

praveen_repelle · 02-07-2007, 08:11 AM

I guess, with respect to DLINK cards, there could be a driver issue, with rtls, and vfe not working, maybe it could be that there is a specific driver that we haven't tried so far...
I am speaking from failed attempts to detect my DLINK 520 ethernet card, for which vfe driver has not worked.

jlliagre · 02-07-2007, 09:36 AM

Do you still have

Code:

rtls "pci1186,1300"

in your driver_aliases file ?

abs_77 · 02-07-2007, 11:48 AM

Yes, I do have the mention entry. I am also not able to figure it out what exactly problem is? During installation it had detected with strange name "rf*". I feel there must be problem with the driver may be trouble attaching driver to specific device.

This is just an environment test box before I make it to the production. In any case I am going to reload it.

Anyway thanks for your help and for the time committed to the subject. I'll definitely update if anything new comes up.

jlliagre · 02-07-2007, 12:03 PM

rtls is the official driver from realtek, rf is an open source one from http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/

abs_77 · 02-08-2007, 01:18 AM

I have downloaded and tried to installed it
# cd /.../rf-x.x.x
# /usr/ccs/bin/make install
# ./adddrv.sh
# rm /kernel/drv/rf (for solaris7, don't remove the file )
# modload obj/rf

but got error in the end
# devfsadm -i rf
devfsadm: driver failed to attach: rf

And,

these are the entries got added in the end during installation in /etc/driver_aliases file

i915 "pci8086,2592"
i915 "pci8086,3582"
rtw "pci10ec,8180"
rf "pci10ec,8129"
rf "pci10ec,8138"
rf "pci1186,1300"
rf "pci18a,106"
rf "pci21b,8139"
rf "pci1259,a11e"

jlliagre · 02-08-2007, 08:07 AM

Did you remove your card rtls entry from the driver_aliases file ?

abs_77 · 02-08-2007, 11:41 AM

Yes, I have removed all the rtls entries(specially 1300) before installing the driver