Comments on: Solaris 10 SunPCI II tricks

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:39:20 +0000

more info for sunpci II users

using 3rd part chips invalidates sun’s warranty but sun’s warranty on the pci II is negligible.

upgrading memory from sun is atrocious ($$$) but hitechvendors.com and others have memory that works fine - I just installed 2 of the following:

256MB PC133 133MHZ 16X16 8 Chip 144-Pin SODIMM

By: Tramadol.

Tramadol. — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:43:25 +0000

Tramadol….

Tramadol….

By: Ray Kolbe

Ray Kolbe — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:19:44 +0000

I am getting stuck on step 2. I get the same results after step 1 as Dan (first post above). But after I download the 113616-06 patch when I attempt to install it seems to do nothing:
Validating patches…

Loading patches installed on the system…

Done!

Loading patches requested to install.

Version of package SUNWspci2 from patch 113616-06 differs from the package installed on the system.
Done!

The following requested patches do not update any packages installed on the system
No any packages from patch 113616-06 are installed on the system.

No patches to check dependency.

Any ideas on what I’m doing incorrectly?

By: Sebastian Laubscher

Sebastian Laubscher — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:27:13 +0000

Any Ideas about getting a SUNPCi 1.1.2 to work with Solaris 10? I have a Blade 100 with a SUNPCi 1.

Thx

By: dan

dan — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:58:26 +0000

Just thought I should put something positive in here. I just got my hands on a sunpci IIpro, followed your instructions exactly and everything worked perfectly!

Thanks for posting this. Very very helpful.

By: unixmuseum

unixmuseum — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:06:25 +0000

OK, I just got a new SunPCi, as the one I had was faulty…
All the sudden, Mike’s tips start to work… I guess it helps to have working hardware… So, the driver is created just fine, Master.ini is there, sunpciload works, sunpci starts and asks me to create a C:\ drive and formats it, but then nothing… Nothing happens at all… I have never used a SunPCi, but according to the documentation it should start installing, asking for Win CD and all… I even tried DR-DOS, which asks me to reboot the SunPCi for the C:\ mapping to take place, but after that: nothing. I don’t get a DOS window or anything… What is going on?

By: Shawn Holwegner

Shawn Holwegner — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:50:40 +0000

Thanks for the tip - I just got a U10, and am trying to get up to date with Solaris. Managed to get 10 wedged on it, found the joys, and pain, of crle… managed to get an old SunPCI K6-2 300. Installed 1.3, and made the symlinks, but was still having issues - NDIS seems to kill it.

..of course, this one has no NIC on it, but it does have USB 1.1. Any ideas on how to force it to skip NDIS for the Win2K install - or should I just try to fudge the drivers after a basic 2k install?

By: Barry Callahan

Barry Callahan — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:40:04 +0000

are you sure that /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris/sunpcidrv.2100 is a link (hard or sym - I used symlinks) to /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris/sunpcidrv.290 and /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris/sunpcidrv.2100.64 is a link to /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris/sunpcidrv.290 ?

What happens if you run /opt/SUNWspci2/bin/sunpci?

By: unixmuseum

unixmuseum — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:17:26 +0000

I followed all the instructions, also get the pkadd failure…
Running sunpcload returns:

devfsadm: driver failed to attach: sunpci2drv
Warning: Driver (sunpci2drv) successfully added to system but failed to attach.

I have an entry in /etc/devlink:

#The following lines added for the SunPCi 2 Device Driver
type=ddi_pseudo;name=pci108e,7063 sunpci2drv\N0

What does this all mean? Non-working SunPCI?

By: Barry Callahan

Barry Callahan — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:50:25 +0000

What it’s trying to do when it fails is load the solaris 10 version of the driver (which doesn’t exist yet) into the kernel…

Step 5 does by hand the step that failed when you installed the package.