Hi,

Trying to resolve an OBP issue in an attempt to get a SunPci 733Mhz card
working again on an U80. Sunpci software indicates that an upgrade to
the OBP is necessary but haven't been able to see any version greater
than 3.33 which is presently on the system. Sunpci was working well
under Solaris 9 but with the Solaris 10 upgrade it failed to come up.
The following is the infamous message.
----
## Executing postinstall script.
Warning: /etc/devlink.tab not updated correctly
Perhaps the system OBP needs to be updated
pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully

Installation of <SUNWspci2> partially failed.
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All net searches seem to involve some pretty circuitous techniques.
Please advise if there's a better way of getting Sunpci up again that
would avoid an OBP upgrade. Or if required, please advise on what
version is the latest and where to acquire it. Thanks.

> Trying to resolve an OBP issue in an attempt to get a SunPci 733Mhz card
> working again on an U80. Sunpci software indicates that an upgrade to
> the OBP is necessary but haven't been able to see any version greater
> than 3.33 which is presently on the system. Sunpci was working well
> under Solaris 9 but with the Solaris 10 upgrade it failed to come up.
> The following is the infamous message.
> ----
> ## Executing postinstall script.
> Warning: /etc/devlink.tab not updated correctly
> Perhaps the system OBP needs to be updated
> pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully
>
> Installation of <SUNWspci2> partially failed.


The error message is misleading.
It has NOTHING to do with OBP level in 99.999% of the reported cases.
You have to do exactly the following and nothing more:

# cd /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris
# rm -i sunpcidrv.2100*
rm: remove sunpcidrv.2100 (yes/no)? y
rm: remove sunpcidrv.2100.64 (yes/no)? y
# cd /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris
# ln -s sunpcidrv.290 sunpcidrv.2100
# ln -s sunpcidrv.290.64 sunpcidrv.2100.64
# ./sunpcload


Enjoy.

I erroneously copy&pasted to many lines.
This was a stupid mistake.
Only do the following:

# cd /opt/SUNWspci2/drivers/solaris
# ln -s sunpcidrv.290 sunpcidrv.2100
# ln -s sunpcidrv.290.64 sunpcidrv.2100.64
# ./sunpcload

JakeRiprock <zerouptick@sbcglobal.net> writes:

>Trying to resolve an OBP issue in an attempt to get a SunPci 733Mhz card
>working again on an U80. Sunpci software indicates that an upgrade to
>the OBP is necessary but haven't been able to see any version greater
>than 3.33 which is presently on the system. Sunpci was working well
>under Solaris 9 but with the Solaris 10 upgrade it failed to come up.

Is the software supported under Solaris 10? You may need to select
the specific device driver to make it work...

>The following is the infamous message.
>----
>## Executing postinstall script.
>Warning: /etc/devlink.tab not updated correctly
> Perhaps the system OBP needs to be updated
>pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully

It says "Perhaps the system OBP needs to be updated" but apparently isn't
sure.

Considering it worked on the same system with S9, I'd suggest you look
elsewhere.

Casper

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