[OpenIndiana-discuss] Missing Intel NIC Driver on OpenIndiana oi_148

[ken mays]

Okky,

The e1000g driver is not finding the info it needs to configure the NIC. 

If things get hairy, you can also do sys-unconfig (reconfigure system as root admin) to set your system back up - only takes a few minutes to do. It'll walk you through NIC and networking setups instead of having to create files yourself.

There are other methods, but just do that as a run through for now...

~ Ken Mays


--- On Mon, 1/31/11, Okky Hendriansyah <mawcikurl at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Okky Hendriansyah <mawcikurl at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Missing Intel NIC Driver on OpenIndiana oi_148
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Cc: "ken mays" <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, January 31, 2011, 11:56 AM

Hi Ken,

I tried using Solaris 11 Express Live CD and it still missing the driver. Tried also your suggestion, here are the output:

OpenIndiana    SunOS 5.11    oi_148    November 2010

root at asturias:~# update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,1503"' e1000g
devfsadm: driver failed to attach: e1000g

Warning: Driver (e1000g) successfully added to system but failed to attach
root at asturias:~# dladm show-phys

LINK         MEDIA                STATE      SPEED  DUPLEX    DEVICE
rtls0        Ethernet             up         100    full      rtls0


The rtls0 is my old D-Link Fast Ethernet PCI Card. How do we attach the e1000g driver to the device?

Best regards,
Okky Hendriansyah

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:40 PM, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Okky,



Can you test this out for me on your Intel 82579 NIC?



Type this command:

"update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,1503"' e1000g"



Hope that helps in the meanwhile. This will identify your card to the e1000g driver - which may work for you as a workaround.



~ Ken Mays











--- On Mon, 1/31/11, Okky Hendriansyah <mawcikurl at gmail.com> wrote:



> From: Okky Hendriansyah <mawcikurl at gmail.com>

> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Missing Intel NIC Driver on OpenIndiana oi_148

> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org

> Date: Monday, January 31, 2011, 2:30 AM

> Hi All,

>

> I've been monitoring this mailing list since day one, and I

> kept getting

> interested with OpenIndiana. Tried to install it on my old

> machine, most of

> the devices were detected and the system running smoothly.

> So I think it's

> about time I move to a younger, stronger system.

>

> I just recently build a new rig for mostly virtualization

> lab and storage.

> It's a Sandy Bridge platform, with Intel motherboard (Intel

> DH67GD). Since

> it has an onboard Intel PRO Gigabit NIC (Intel 82579V), I

> was very confident

> it wouldn't have any installation issue or performance with

> OpenIndiana. It

> turned out that there are some missing drivers when I ran

> Driver Utility

> during Live DVD of OpenIndiana oi_148. For my surprise, one

> of the missing

> drivers is the onboard NIC! So I cancelled the installation

> and tried other

> distro and operating system to make sure that it wasn't a

> hardware defect

> issue.

>

> Both OpenSolaris 2009.06 Live CD and Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD

> were also having

> the same issue. Furthermore I tried to install it with

> Windows 7, install

> its NIC drivers from Intel and whoila the NIC appeared and

> worked

> flawlessly. I also tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 and it

> successfully detect

> the adapter. Are there any missing steps that I overlooked

> on installing

> OpenIndiana? Shouldn't Intel NIC drivers support in

> OpenIndiana came out of

> the box right from its Live DVD session? Tonight I will try

> to install it

> with Solaris 11 Express and see if it recognizes the NIC.

>

> Are there any output from a command that I should put in

> here for further

> investigation?

>

> Thanks in advance!

>

> Best regards,

> Okky Hendriansyah

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