[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with bge driver

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-02-08 00:56, Ricardo NA wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I found in this page http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Ethernet+Networking that a Broadcom NIC 5719 is supported with oi 151a7. In that page you can read "bge 15.4.3". So I assume this is the driver version from Broadcom wich I downloaded and tried to install. (BRCMbge-Solaris_11-i386-15.4.3.pkg)
>
> The installer shows a pair of warning messages, about conflicting files, but continues and finishes. I installed with root. But afterwards there is no nic available in the system. I tried the usual advices: update_drv -a -i "pciex14e4,1657" bge, add_drv, check file /etc/driver_aliases , ifconfig -a plumb, sys-unconfig, etc. But the driver never attaches.
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> To make a test, in the same system I installed Solaris 11 and tried to install the same driver. I use the same procedure (uninstall previous driver, etc) and the same warning messages about conflicting files appeared. But this time at the end of the installer there was some messages about linking and creating devices files in /dev (which does not appear in oi) and afterwards the installer finishes and the nic is working!

This step seems like output from "devfsadm -Cv" which checks present
hardware and drivers and makes (and removes) device nodes.
The same happens if you "touch /reconfigure; reboot" for example.

Likewise, there is a limited variant (-i?) to do this only for a
particular driver.

Good luck,
//Jim