Infrastructure Software

Hi,

I have an HP compaq nc6000 laptop with Solaris 9 04/04 installed. The HW components are listed in:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11794_na/11794_na.HTML.

The problem I had during installation was video driver. I had to load a xf86 one. I tried a driver from http://www.tools.de/solaris/xf86/ and works OK.

The second problem I had and still having is the network drive. This Laptot has a Broadcom Extreme Gigabit on-board BCM5705M chpset. I downloaded the last driver available on broadcom page but it has some problems. The driver installation was OK but it cant be attached to the system. The link in /dev is missing. See pkgadd log below:


# pkgadd -d .

The following packages are available:
1 BRCMbcme Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver
(i386) v7.0.7

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 1

Processing package instance <BRCMbcme> from </opt/sol86>

Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver
(i386) v7.0.7
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Broadcom Corporation, Inc.
All rights reserved.

This product is protected by copyright and distributed under
licenses restricting copying, distribution and decompilation.

Using </> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
6 package pathnames are already properly installed.
## Verifying package dependencies.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user
permission during the process of installing this package.

Do you want to continue with the installation of <BRCMbcme> [y,n,?] y

Installing Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver as <BRCMbcme>

## Installing part 1 of 1.
/kernel/drv/bcme
/kernel/drv/bcme.conf
/usr/share/man/sman7d/bcme.7d
[ verifying class <none> ]
## Executing postinstall script.
devfsadm: driver failed to attach: bcme
Warning: Driver (bcme) successfully added to system but failed to attach

Installation of <BRCMbcme> was successful.

The following packages are available:
1 BRCMbcme Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver
(i386) v7.0.7

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: q
#



Here is what prtconf shows.

Node 0x1daa58
66mhz-capable:
assigned-addresses: 83027010.00000000.90000000.00000000.00010000.82027030.00000000.00000000.00000000.00010000
class-code: 00020000
compatible: 'pci14e4,165e.103c.890.3' + 'pci14e4,165e.103c.890' + 'pci103c,890' + 'pci14e4,165e.3' + 'pci14e4,165e' + 'pciclass,020000' + 'pciclass,0200'
device-id: 0000165e
devsel-speed: 00000001
fast-back-to-back:
interrupts: 00000001
max-latency: 00000000
min-grant: 00000040
model: 'PCI: 103c,890 - class: Ethernet controller'
name: 'pci103c,890'
power-consumption: 00000001.00000001
reg: 00027000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.03027010.00000000.00000000.00000000.00010000.02027030.00000000.00000000.00000000.00010000
revision-id: 00000003
slot: 00000000
subsystem-id: 00000890
subsystem-vendor-id: 0000103c
unit-address: 'e'
vendor-id: 000014e4


Looking prtconf -pv log I can see compatible parameters are't in the installation script (add_drv command) from Broadcom. Is it the reason?







Also, I tried with a Etherlink card 3C589D and I had the same error as Broadcom. I load the XIG package but still doesn't work. The links in /dev wasn't created.
I think one problem is I can't change the BIOS to set PCMCIA card to be PCIC compatible.
Other driver I tested is pctc-0.8.4b.tar.gz whin no succesfull reasult.


Under Windows everything works OK.
Under RedHat video deriver and network driver wor OK.

Any help?




#prtconf -D
System Configuration: COMPAQ i86pc
Memory size: 512 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):

i86pc
+boot
memory
aliases
chosen
i86pc-memory
i86pc-mmu
openprom
options, instance #0 (driver name: options)
packages
delayed-writes
itu-props
isa, instance #0 (driver name: isa)
motherboard
lp (driver name: lp)
fdc, instance #0 (driver name: fdc)
fd, instance #0 (driver name: fd)
fd, instance #1 (driver name: fd)
i8042, instance #0 (driver name: i8042)
mouse, instance #0 (driver name: mouse8042)
keyboard, instance #0 (driver name: kb8042)
PNP0E03
bios
PNP0C01
asy, instance #0 (driver name: asy)
SMCF010
PNP0C02
PNP0C02
pci, instance #0 (driver name: pci)
pci103c,890
pci8086,3341, instance #0 (driver name: pci_pci)
display, instance #0 (driver name: vgatext)
pci103c,890, instance #0 (driver name: uhci)
pci103c,890, instance #1 (driver name: uhci)
pci103c,890, instance #2 (driver name: uhci)
pci103c,890, instance #0 (driver name: usba10_ehci)
pci8086,2448, instance #1 (driver name: pci_pci)
pci103c,890, instance #0 (driver name: pcic)
pci103c,890, instance #1 (driver name: pcic)
pci103c,890
pci103c,890, instance #2 (driver name: pcic)
pci103c,890
pci8086,24cc
pci-ide, instance #0 (driver name: pci-ide)
ide, instance #0 (driver name: ata)
cmdk, instance #0 (driver name: cmdk)
ide, instance #1 (driver name: ata)
sd, instance #0 (driver name: sd)
pci103c,890
pci103c,890
used-resources
objmgr, instance #0 (driver name: objmgr)
cpus
cpu, instance #0
pseudo, instance #0 (driver name: pseudo)
xsvc, instance #0 (driver name: xsvc)



Thanks for any help.

Pedro_Pablo