Nvidia nForce Network nic (nge driver) not recoginzed

Question

I have a Transtec Senyo Machine on which I installed Solaris 10 6/06. It does not recognize the Network.
It has a NVIDIA� Quadro� NVS 210 chip set with NVIDIA� nForce� 430B NIC. The nge module gets not loaded, upon boot, and I have of course nod /dev/nge
Any idea on how to track this down?
Regards
Fritz

Answer 1

I installed the third-party ngo driver providec by Masayuki Murayama of Japan
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
Download file http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/nfo-2.6.3.tar.gz, and carefully follow directions in file README.txt.
The instuctions are terse for those new to Solaris, so here's a (unsupported) script to help.
First create file /etc/hostname.nfo0 or (if using NWAM in OpenSolaris) add line "ngo0 dhcp" to /etc/nwam/llp or line "ngo0 192.168.0.2" (where you replace 192.168.0.2 with your IP address).
KARCH=`isainfo -n` # amd64 or i386
rm -f obj Makefile
ln -sf Makefile.${KARCH}_gcc Makefile
ln -sf ${KARCH} obj
make install
./adddrv.sh
ifconfig nfo0 plumb
ifconfig nfo0
To find out if your network card is supported, get the PCI id from prtconf -pv
For example, my card is pci10de,ab0 (nVidia MP 79 Ethernet 10/100/1000).
Here's the ngo network driver supported nVidia cards:
MCP pci10de,1c3
MCP-R pci10de,66
nForce 3 150 pci10de,d6
nforce 2 Ultra pci10de,86 pci10de,8c
nForce 3 250Gb pci10de,e6 pci10de,df
CK804 pci10de,56 pci10de,57
MCP04 pci10de,37 pci10de,38
MCP51 pci10de,268 pci10de,269
MCP55 pci10de,372 pci10de,373
MCP61 pci10de,3e5 pci10de,3e6 pci10de,3ee pci10de,3ef
MCP65 pci10de,450 pci10de,451 pci10de,452 pci10de,453
MCP67 pci10de,54c pci10de,54d pci10de,54e pci10de,54f
MCP73 pci10de,7dc pci10de,7dd pci10de,7de pci10de,7df
MCP77 pci10de,760 pci10de,761 pci10de,762 pci10de,763
MCP79 pci10de,ab0 pci10de,ab1 pci10de,ab2 pci10de,ab3
P.S., I believe the Sun-supported driver is nge, but it doesn't recognize my card--maybe it's just older cards that it recognizes.