Solaris 10 x86 on IBM x346

Hi All,
I've currently got Solaris 10 x86 installed successfully on an IBM x346 which is a 1 proc 3.06GHz HT Xeon supporting EM64T and 1GB ram.
Everything works, except the most important device, network.
It's got two bge's onboard, I had to add the line :
bge "pci14e4,1659"
to /etc/driver_aliases and rebooted.
Okay so now I have /dev/bge0 and /dev/bge1, but neither of them will function.
If I ifconfig plumb bge0 or bge1, that works but the ether address is all 0's.
If I set it thus:
ifconfig bge0 192.168.70.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 0:11:25:8c:3b:a2 up
That takes (i get the ether address from the bios), however the output looks like this:
bge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.70.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.70.255
ether 0:11:25:8c:3b:a2
Note, no "RUNNING" keyword.
If I make a hostname.bge0 and /etc/hosts entry it fails on reboot. I get an error message similar to this:
WARNING bge0: send index -1: device didn't RESET!
Its my understanding that these are 5721 (or something like that)... but they appear to be supported by the driver or perhaps only partially?
Any ideas?

OK I assumed the tape drive is scsi dat ... correct ?
Is the main disk (boot disk) also scsi, if so do they use the same scsi controller ?
If the boot drive is scsi and the tape drive is on the same controller we can asume the scsi controller is recognized but the tape drive is not.
If there is a bios utility to access the scsi controller ... eg: adaptec uses <ctl> <a> check to see if the tape drive shows in the setup for the card if not the OS will never see it and you will have to troubleshoot from there.
If the main disk is "not" scsi and the tape drive is, have you checked to see if the scsi controller is recognized and supported ?

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Hi all,
I got a problem when installing Solaris9 x86 on ibm NetVista Machine.
I have installed 2 other machines with separated network card sucessfully. I can configure to connecto to my LAN network.
But when install on 2 ibm NetVista machines (which include onboard network card ), It is fail to be configured to connect to the network in both following cases:
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Can any boy help me to solve this problem ??
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However, it can nerver get ARPs from other computer in LAN.Are you perhaps running "snoop" on a box different from the one that you're trying to ping, and are you using
a switched ethernet? In that case it would be OK if you only see the ARP broadcast, because the ping target
box will send the ARP reply directly to the MAC of the requesting station (i.e. there's no ARP broadcast reply),
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WARNING: directory '/u01/app/oracle' is not owned by root
WARNING: directory '/u01/app' is not owned by root
WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root
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node 2: xsan002 xsan002-priv xsan002
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
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CSS is active on these nodes.
xsan001
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xsan002
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=============================
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WARNING: directory '/u01/app/oracle/product' is not owned by root
WARNING: directory '/u01/app/oracle' is not owned by root
WARNING: directory '/u01/app' is not owned by root
WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured
Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
Setting up NS directories
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WARNING: directory '/u01/app/oracle/product' is not owned by root
WARNING: directory '/u01/app/oracle' is not owned by root
WARNING: directory '/u01/app' is not owned by root
WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
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node 1: xsan001 xsan001-priv xsan001
node 2: xsan002 xsan002-priv xsan002
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
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Adding daemons to inittab
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Failure at final check of Oracle CRS stack.
10
Can you provide some sort of clue what could be done to resolve the above error?

Refer to http://www.oracleracsig.org/ Under documents section select OS=Solaris. You will find a document on Oracle RAC on Solaris10 using Vmware.

Help with evaluation for Solaris x86

Hello,
I would like to evaluate Oracle Identity Manager and Access Manager products at the latest version possible -- the host system(s) are Solaris x86 (SunOS .5.10) Unfortunately, I am having a bit of trouble compiling the list of packages/versions to achieve this for this platform. For instance, on the downloads page it appears that OIM is not available for Solaris x86, not even in older versions(?)
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cheers,
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Again, since solaris 10 11/06 is at 118855-33, it runs on my core2 machine straight from the install.
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