SunPCi and Solaris 9

Hi,
I have an Ultra 10 with a SunPCi card. Not the SunPCi II, but the original SunPCi with a 400MHz AMD. I am having trouble installing the drivers for it on Solaris 9. The package installs, but the postinstall script fails;
Warning: /etc/devlink.tab not updated correctly
Perhaps the system OBP needs to be updated
Looking at the postinstall script, it seems to want to search for a string, "pci108e,5043" in /etc/devlink.tab. I can't tell for sure where it fails, because it returns the same error in two places. Basically it either fails when grep'ing for "pci108e,5043" or if it can't find /dev/sunpcidrv2 as a character device. For some reason the driver doesn't seem to want to attach itself to anything.
Under Solaris 8 and previous releases supported, this works just fine.
Has anybody gotten this to work at all? I'd really like to move on to Solaris 9 as there are many improvements I would like to take advantage of in the new release.
Thanks

Hello,
"Now hopefully the Sun employees will know this too. What is their problem, why don't they
just do this themselves?"
This is a user-to-user forum hosted and moderated by Sun. Therefore this is not the right place to get direct support by Sun.
The SunPCi II/IIpro is no longer sold. If someone has a support contract for the card, he can call Sun to open a call. With a support contract you can even locate more documents on Sunsolve.
If you think that the document about installation of Linux is not well written, you are free volunteer and rewrite it.
"I thought it would be fun to put Solaris X86 on the card ... I don't have the time to mess with it, maybe someone else can do it and post how?"
There is a certain attitute that everything has to be free in terms of cost and time spent. If you don't have the time, how about donating hardware or money to the projects ?
I don't work for Sun, but I understand that support can not be provided for free. Or do you work without being paid for ?
Michael

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