[ug-bosug] Broadcom drivers for Solaris 10 (incomplete howto - help needed)

[Sriram Narayanan]

Hi all:

I installed Solaris 10 on my Dell Latitude D610 last saturday (an hour
before our Bosug meet, actually).

Solaris 10 didn't have support for my Broadcom Ethernet card. However,
Belenix 0.4.2 and above have always supported this Ethernet card.

Here's how I went about installing the drivers on Solaris 10

1. Within Solaris, issue "df -h" to find where /export/home is mounted.
In my case, this was /dev/rdsk/c0d0s7

2. Reboot into Belenix Live.

3. Connect to http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php
 and download the Solaris drivers.

4. Check where the /dev/rdsk/c0d0s7 device has been mounted.
df -h
I see that it's mounted at /mnt/solaris1

5. Copy the drivers to the Solaris home partion on the hard disk.
cp /root/Desktop/sol*.zip /mnt/solaris1

6. Reboot into Solaris 10 on the computer.

7. Change over to /export/home

8. uncompress the .Z file there.
uncompress sol*.Z

9. Extract the tar file contents.
tar xvf sol*.tar

10. Change into the extracted folder, and follow the instructions
given in the readme file.

At present:
- I created the /etc/solaria.bcme0 file. Here, my computer name is
solaria, and the ethernet driver name is bcme0
- The ethernet driver is not loaded at startup. I have to use ifconfig
to load the driver.

Questions:
1. How do I load the driver automatically ?
2. Is creating the /etc/solaria.bcme0 file enough ?
I followed the instructions given at
http://www.rite-group.com/rich/solaris_dhcp.html (referred to by the
bigadmin site).

Thanks in advance,

-- Sriram