In article <cteufu$2fg$1@misc-cct.server.rpi.edu>,
Bob Healey <healer@rpi.edu> wrote:
>Miod Vallat wrote:
>>>Does the sun be 10/100 sbus ethernet card work on sparc64? It works
>>>just fine more me on sparc32, but on sparc64 I get DMA errors and the
>>>card is unusable. According to the docs, the NIC is supported on both
>>>platforms.
>>
>>
>> It works, but on some PCI cards with on-board PCI bridges, interrupt
>> swizzling problems prevent the interfaces from working.
>>
>> This is a known issue for which there is currently no good workaround,
>> but which might eventually be fixed.
>>
>> If your card is an SBus card, then this is a new issue; please report
>> the problem with sendbug.
>
>This is the sbus card - I don't have the most recent flash revision on
>my system, so I want to update that first. The machine is an Ultra 1.
>The card works just fine on a Sparc-Station 5. I am running 3.6 with
>all the erratta applied.

Hmm ... are these the ones which identify as hme*? I've got a
four-port one in an Ultra-1/140, and it is working without obvious
problems.

But that system is running OpenBSD 3.4.

Here is the (partial) output of "ifconfig -a", showing only the
two ports currently in service:

================================================== ====================
hme0: flags=8063<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICA ST> mtu 1500
address: 08:00:20:bd:e5:00
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)
status: active
inet 10.0.0.50 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:febd:e500%hme0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
hme1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX ,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
address: 08:00:20:bd:e5:01
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
status: active
inet 10.4.14.50 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.4.14.255
inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:febd:e501%hme1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
================================================== ====================

And -- I accessed it through hme0 from an Ultra-2 running
Solaris 2.8, FWIW.

Both are internal subnets. The external is on the le0
interface, since it is not capable of being hit with as much bandwidth
anyway.

Could it be something wrong with your specific card? I got one
(totally dead) card from an eBay vendor. He replaced it without
question. It was so bad that it even locked up the system so it could
not show the OpenBoot prompt, let alone actually boot fully.

Good Luck,
DoN.
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