ifconfig pcelx0 plumb fails with Bad file number error
807559Sep 10 2001 — edited Sep 11 2001Hi,
I installed solaris 8 (x86) on a Toshiba Tecra 8000.
The Tecra uses Neomagic NM2200 chipset for it's display.
Even though it is not supported by the Sun Drivers, getting xfree86 for sun fixed the display problem for me.
Now according to the various sources that guided me in this task seemed to point at a few things that I had to do in order to make the Tecra work okay with Solaris 8 :
1)Change the PCMCIA mode in the BIOS from automatic to PCIC mode
2)Make sure that there were no IRQ conflicts on the system.
3)Install the OS.
Once the OS was installed, I ran prtconf -D and saw that the network instance #0 pcelx0 was showing up under pcic.
I did not have to install the xig init-pcic patch.
But it did not create an entry in /devices or /dev (as a link) with the error
"pcelx0 requested IRQ failed 6".
Also, I suppose that is the reason why when pcelx0 is plumbed, it comes out with the error message:
ifconfig pcelx0 plumb : "bad file number"
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dwai.