NC100 card - can it really be used?

I have just loaded Solaris 10 from the Sun DVD on my pc. I am trying to
get the Linksys (Network Everywhere) NC100 card to work with it. I am
having little luck.

I loaded the GED (etherdrivers) packages with the drivers for the card.
I used release 1.0.5. These are the drivers from Garret D'Amore. The
software loaded OK, and when I set up the network configuration file
such as /etc/hostname.afe0 the system found the card.

My problem is that I can not access the card. When I try to from inside
of the system I get the message:
Open(/dev/afe0): I/O Error

Can this card really be used? Is there any trick to get it going?

--
Gary Meerschaert

On Sun, 28 May 2006 15:17:04 -0400, Gary & Terrie Meerschaert wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have just loaded Solaris 10 from the Sun DVD on my pc. I am trying to
> get the Linksys (Network Everywhere) NC100 card to work with it. I am
> having little luck.
>
> I loaded the GED (etherdrivers) packages with the drivers for the card.
> I used release 1.0.5. These are the drivers from Garret D'Amore. The
> software loaded OK, and when I set up the network configuration file
> such as /etc/hostname.afe0 the system found the card.
>
> My problem is that I can not access the card. When I try to from inside
> of the system I get the message:
> Open(/dev/afe0): I/O Error
>
> Can this card really be used? Is there any trick to get it going?[/color]


I have one working:

$ ifconfig afe0
afe0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.13 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255

with GED drivers:

$ pkginfo | grep GED
system GEDenetd Garrett's Solaris Ethernet Drivers
system GEDenetm Garrett's Solaris Ethernet Drivers (Man Pages)
system GEDenetu Garrett's Solaris Ethernet Drivers (Utility and Header)


$ pkginfo -x GEDenetd
GEDenetd Garrett's Solaris Ethernet Drivers
(i386) 1.0.5,REV=2005.12.04.22.13

I don't remember it required anything special and the same card and
drivers have been used in Solaris 8 and 10. So it can work and mine
has been perfect in service. Not scrapping useful working parts is a
hobby of mine but it's probably easier to use a supported card, even
the minor hassle of not being able to load the drivers via the network
because the network isn't working yet.

The solution for me was two-fold.

1) Some of the permissions on the fi;e under /devices were wrong.

2) The card does not work if it was first initialized by XP. The
computer has to be power-cycled between OS uses, not just rebooted.


Gary and Terrie Meerschaert

James Lee wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sun, 28 May 2006 15:17:04 -0400, Gary & Terrie Meerschaert wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I have just loaded Solaris 10 from the Sun DVD on my pc. I am trying to
>> get the Linksys (Network Everywhere) NC100 card to work with it. I am
>> having little luck.
>>
>> I loaded the GED (etherdrivers) packages with the drivers for the card.
>> I used release 1.0.5. These are the drivers from Garret D'Amore. The
>> software loaded OK, and when I set up the network configuration file
>> such as /etc/hostname.afe0 the system found the card.
>>
>> My problem is that I can not access the card. When I try to from inside
>> of the system I get the message:
>> Open(/dev/afe0): I/O Error
>>
>> Can this card really be used? Is there any trick to get it going?[/color]
>
>
> I have one working:
>
> $ ifconfig afe0
> afe0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
> inet 192.168.1.13 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>
> with GED drivers:
>
> $ pkginfo | grep GED
> system GEDenetd Garrett's Solaris Ethernet Drivers
> system GEDenetm Garrett's Solaris Ethernet Drivers (Man Pages)
> system GEDenetu Garrett's Solaris Ethernet Drivers (Utility and Header)
>
>
> $ pkginfo -x GEDenetd
> GEDenetd Garrett's Solaris Ethernet Drivers
> (i386) 1.0.5,REV=2005.12.04.22.13
>
> I don't remember it required anything special and the same card and
> drivers have been used in Solaris 8 and 10. So it can work and mine
> has been perfect in service. Not scrapping useful working parts is a
> hobby of mine but it's probably easier to use a supported card, even
> the minor hassle of not being able to load the drivers via the network
> because the network isn't working yet.
>[/color]