Mknod error when pkgadd of SUNWqfed - device is not created

Question

I am trying to install a second quad FE card in a sparcstation 20. There is a quad ethernet card in there right now, which is live.
I ran the pkgadd command to install the SUNWqfed and SUNWqfedu packages. When the SUNWqfed package was being installed I noticed an error
Executing postinstall script
Usage: mknod name [b/c major/minor] [p] failed Postinstall script did not complete successfully.
I uninstalled the package and tried it again but it still failed, and I tried another downloaded copy of the packages with the same error. I also saw that the path_to_install file did not have the entries for the qfe card.
Any idea how I can fix this and install the card?
Thank you
Edited by: HCCS on Feb 7, 2008 1:32 PM

Answer 1

I already have a quad ethernet card in this system and it is the live interface. I tried to physically remove it before installing the package, with the same results.
Also, I was looking at the SUNWqfed postinstall script that was
indicated as where it was failing and the link in points to nothing. There is no clone@0:qfe file to link to.
ln -s ../devices/pseudo/clone@0:qfe ${BASEDIR}/dev/qfe id=`grep "^qfe " ${NAMEMAJOR} | awk '{printf("%s", $2)}'`
mknod ${BASEDIR}/devices/pseudo/clone@0:qfe c 11 $id
The path_to_install file only has entries for the qe interface, nothing for the qfe.
Thanks for your help.