Adding 3COM 3C905C-TX for Solaris Intel

Question

Hi there,
I am trying to add a 3COM 3C905C-TX card for Solaris 8/Intel.
Since it's a PCI card, do i have to specify the irq, address etc
in /platform/../elx.conf, if yes how and where do i get this
info from? i followed the other procedures in the sun doc link
provided several threads ago but ifconfig is still not recognizing
the interface. how do i know for sure if the NIC itself is installed
or not? any insights would be greatly appreciated!!!
vinny.

Answer 1

First you should probably install the latest solaris 8 elxl driver patch 109867-03 / 109866-XX because this patch adds support for the 3C905C cards.
See the "Patches" link on the
Solaris Driver Download page.
(People have also reported that the 3C905C card works without the
patch, but you have to
add entries to certain system files).
PCI cards are self-identifying, so there's not need to add irq's
dma channels or I/O ports to
a driver conf file.
Make sure you perform a reconfiguration boot (either by
specifying option "-r" on the boot command line or by a
"touch /reconfigure" before you reboot solaris).
The command "ifconfig elxl0 plumb" should add an interface
for the 3com network card, afterwards you can use
"ifconfig elxl0 inet 12.34.56.78", ... to configure ip addresses, etc.
If this all works OK, create a new file "/etc/hostname.elxl0" and
insert a single line with the IP-address for the 3com interface
into that file.