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

[Venky]

By the way, this sounds like a good entry to have in the OpenSolaris
wiki, maybe in the "HOWTOs and Guides" section! :)
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTOs_and_Guides

Venky.

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:17:09PM +0530, Pradhap Devarajan wrote:
> 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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