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

[Pradhap Devarajan]

Sriram,
       Can you please pass on prtconf -pv output or you can try the 
below steps.
Do a search on "prtconf -pv | less"  you will find for Ethernet or 
network string. In which it will list
find the below information.

vendor-id:0000XXXX
device-id:0000YYYY

once you have figured that out, run the below command to update the driver
#update_drv -a -i '"pciXXXX,YYYY"'  bcme

And then do
#ifconfig -a plumb

HTH,
Pradhap.D

Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> 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
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