In article <41fe2ed3.16238000@uaxe.intern.istda.com>,
Frank-Christian Kruegel <usenet1003> wrote:
>On 31 Jan 2005 01:02:53 -0500, dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) 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.
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>>I had the card in a sparcstation 5 running as be0 just fine.
>>
>
>> What card identifies itself as a "be0"? Can you point to the
>>page in Sun's FEH (Field Engineer's Handbook)? At least with it moving
>>from a SS-5 to an Ultra-1, it should be an Sbus card. But I didn't know
>>that there was another 100BaseT/10BaseT card in their line.
>
>It's a X1056A.
>
>Pictures: http://sunstuff.org/hardware/partnumbers/X/1/0/5/6/A/
>
>"Not supported by Solaris 7.0 & up, Supported in Sun-4/15/30, SS5, SS10,
>SS20, SS600, SS1000, SS2000."

And in particular, swept out from that web page, note this line:

This card is supported in most pre-Ultra Suns

which suggests that it does *not* work in the Ultras (64-bit SPARCs). I
do know that the hme versions do work in Ultras -- and in the Ultra-2,
it is even the built-in ethernet interface.

Sorry about that. Move that card back to the SS-5, and look for
one of the hme cards for the Ultra-1. Those *do* work.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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