[laptop-discuss] Re: (no subject)

[steve trabert]

I had the same problem with bcmndis failing to attach.  In my case another driver had attached, aac.

Here is a way to figure this out.  from prtconf -pv find the entry for your vendor-id and device-id.  You had:
            Node 0x000018
                assigned-addresses:  82031810.00000000.dfdfe000.00000000.00002000
                reg:  00031800.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.02031810.00000000.00000000.00000000.00002000
                compatible: 'pci14e4,4320.1028.3.3' + 'pci14e4,4320.1028.3' + 'pci1028,3' + 'pci14e4,4320.3' + 'pci14e4,4320' + 'pciclass,028000' + 'pciclass,0280'
                model:  'Network controller'
                power-consumption:  00000001.00000001
                devsel-speed:  00000000
                interrupts:  00000001
                max-latency:  00000000
                min-grant:  00000000
                subsystem-vendor-id:  00001028
                subsystem-id:  00000003
                unit-address:  '3'
                class-code:  00028000
                revision-id:  00000003
                vendor-id:  000014e4
                device-id:  00004320
                name:  'pci1028,3'

Note the name pci1028,3.

run 'prtconf -D | grep pci1028,3'   (where you grep for the name found above)

In my case this resulted in:
            pci1028,3 (driver name: aac)

The aac driver is attached.

You can get bcmndis to attach instead of aac by using an identify name that appears earlier in the compatible list from the prtconf -pv excerpt above when you add_drv.

I believe this will work for you, it worked for me with my device id of 4324:
rem_drv bcmndis             (I don't know if you need to do this or not, I did it anyway just to clean up from the failed add_drv attempt)
add_drv -i '"pci14e4,4320.1028.3"' bcmndis


Before you do this I suspect you will see a similar message in /var/adm/messages to what I had:
#Oct 28 17:10:34 C128189 aac: [ID 477943 kern.info] NOTICE: aac driver 2.01.10-1, found card: Unknown AAC card(pci0x14e4.4324.1028.3) at 0xfafee000
#Oct 28 17:33:32 C128189 aac: [ID 477943 kern.info] NOTICE: aac driver 2.01.10-1, found card: Unknown AAC card(pci0x14e4.4324.1028.3) at 0xfafee000

While I believe this will get you going, it is beyond me how this should really be fixed.

Good Luck
 
 
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