Infrastructure Software

Hi, Im trying to install the Solaris 8 software on my ABIT BP6 board with a Compaq NetFlex3 10TX NIC. This is a SMP board (dual celeron) but is not on the HCL (the NIC is).

The installation gives no problems at all (except for a memory conflict between memory devices), and SunOS works pretty well except for networking... using ifconfig -a shows me the networking interface and the loopback interface but I can't ping outside of the Solaris machine (or ping to the Solaris machine from an other machine).

I know that the board is not on the HCL but I had no networking troubles with Solaris 8 early access.

After instalation of the software and the reboot, I get the status as below:

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configuring IPv4 interfaces: cnft0.
Hostname: MILLIWAYS
Configuring /dev and /devices
Configuring the /dev directory (compatibility devices)
The system is coming up. Please wait.
checking ufs filesystems
/dev/rdsk/c0d0s7: is clean.
All devices are configured...
Configuring network interface addresses: cnft0.
RPC: Timed out
Starting IPv4 routing deamon.
starting rpc services: rpcbind done.
Setting netmask of cnft0 to 255.255.255.0
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As you can see I get a time out while configuring the NIC. I tried a lot of different things (and some bad ones like using the device driver disk of the EA version with the cd's of the final version but no luck there...)

Anyone with the same problems or any help?

Thanx, Marcel