I recently bought at ebay an acenic gigabit card for the PCI ultra
boxes. After I installed it in my recently-acquired U30 (Solaris 9), I
decided to install the drivers. When I tried to do that, I received the
message the drivers were 32bit and the OS 64. Is there a way to make
them work together happily?


# pkgadd -d .

The following packages are available:
1 ALTNalt Alteon Networks AceNIC Adapter
(sparc) 2.1.14

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:

Processing package instance <ALTNalt> from </export/home/neko/todo>

Alteon Networks AceNIC Adapter
(sparc) 2.1.14
Copyright 1997 Alteon Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Using </> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
7 package pathnames are already properly installed.
## Verifying package dependencies.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user
permission during the process of installing this package.

Do you want to continue with the installation of <ALTNalt> [y,n,?] y

Installing Alteon Networks AceNIC Adapter as <ALTNalt>

## Installing part 1 of 1.
/etc/rcS.d/S29alt.sh
/etc/rcS.d/S31alt.sh
/kernel/drv/alt
/sbin/rcSexpr
/sbin/rcSndd
/var/opt/ALTNalt/.tools/altdb
/var/opt/ALTNalt/.tools/altstat
/var/opt/ALTNalt/.tools/alttb
/var/opt/ALTNalt/.tools/alttune
/var/opt/ALTNalt/man/man7d/alt.7d
[ verifying class <none> ]
## Executing postinstall script.
No 64-bit version of (alt) found; 32-bit version of this driver exists.
32-bit driver (alt) not loadable on 64-bit kernel.
System configuration files modified but alt driver not loaded or
attached.

Installation of <ALTNalt> was successful.

The following packages are available:
1 ALTNalt Alteon Networks AceNIC Adapter
(sparc) 2.1.14

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: q
#

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On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mauricio wrote:

> I recently bought at ebay an acenic gigabit card for the PCI ultra
> boxes. After I installed it in my recently-acquired U30 (Solaris 9), I
> decided to install the drivers. When I tried to do that, I received the
> message the drivers were 32bit and the OS 64. Is there a way to make
> them work together happily?

Nope; you're only choices are to use the 32-bit kernel, or get
another GBE card...

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-online.net

Mauricio <uce@ftc.gov> writes:

> I recently bought at ebay an acenic gigabit card for the PCI ultra
>boxes. After I installed it in my recently-acquired U30 (Solaris 9), I
>decided to install the drivers. When I tried to do that, I received the
>message the drivers were 32bit and the OS 64. Is there a way to make
>them work together happily?


You can boot a 32 bit kernel and use it that way; or you need
to find a 64 bit driver.

Casper
--
Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related
to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

In article <Pine.SOL.4.58.0405141617540.13648@rite-group.com>,
Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mauricio wrote:
>
> > I recently bought at ebay an acenic gigabit card for the PCI ultra
> > boxes. After I installed it in my recently-acquired U30 (Solaris 9), I
> > decided to install the drivers. When I tried to do that, I received the
> > message the drivers were 32bit and the OS 64. Is there a way to make
> > them work together happily?
>
> Nope; you're only choices are to use the 32-bit kernel, or get
> another GBE card...

Since the company went boink, is there a way to reverse engineer it?

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Mauricio raub-kudria-com
(if you need to email me, use this address =)

On Sun, 23 May 2004, Mauricio wrote:

> Since the company went boink, is there a way to reverse engineer it?

Not likely. How much is your time worth? I suspect it'd be a lot
cheaper just to buy (from eBay if necessary) a GBE card that is
currently supported...

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-online.net