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Hi!

I'm pretty sure it's a compatibility issue and that it won't work, but
there's no harm in asking. I bought a cheap DGE-530T card from D-link and
tried to install it in my Ultra 5. The system just isn't seeing the card
at all.

At first, I thought it was the PCI riser board that was at issue, so I
installed in a working RTL8139 card from an old parts bin and everything is
showing up fine :

# prtconf
....
pci, instance #1
ethernet (driver not attached)

That's the Realtek card, for which I haven't bothered installing the driver.
Also, prtdiag sees the Realtek card fine, but not the DGE-530T card :

Bus# Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---- -------------------------------- ----------------------
0 PCI-1 33 1 ebus
0 PCI-1 33 1 network-SUNW,hme
0 PCI-1 33 2 SUNW,m64B ATY,GT-C
0 PCI-1 33 3 ide-pci1095,646.1095.646.3
0 PCI-2 33 1 ethernet-pci10ec,8139.10ec.8139.+

Both should be on PCI-2, but the D-link card isn't showing up at all,
neither in prtconf (should be something like pci1186,4b01) nor in prtdiag.
So do I have a dud card or is there no hope in getting this to work ?

In article <gVIqj.2243$w16.697@wagner.videotron.net>,
Marc Tessier <redk@videotron.ca> wrote:
>I'm pretty sure it's a compatibility issue and that it won't work, but
>there's no harm in asking. I bought a cheap DGE-530T card from D-link and
>tried to install it in my Ultra 5. The system just isn't seeing the card
>at all.

Is the card DOA? Have you tested it in another system or a PC?

John
groenveld@acm.org

On 7 Feb, 19:23, Marc Tessier <r...@videotron.ca> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm pretty sure it's a compatibility issue and that it won't work, but
> there's no harm in asking. *I bought a cheap DGE-530T card from D-link and
> tried to install it in my Ultra 5. *The system just isn't seeing the card

I tried that card as well a while ago, right in an Ultra 5, and it was
not recognized, although the chipset should be supported by the
drivers, that card must have some dlink tweaks that prevents it from
happening.

A Netgear with realtek will work, however I have had several problems
with those cards too, syncing at 100Mbit/s instead of 1000 at boot,
intermittently.

Best third party cards for sparc are Intel Pro/1000. Although none of
the third party cards can be used to boot as they are not seen by the
OPB.

Hope this helps.

HD

On 7 Feb, 19:23, Marc Tessier <r...@videotron.ca> wrote:
> there's no harm in asking. *I bought a cheap DGE-530T card from D-link and

BTW, I forgot to add: there is no point in installing a gigabit card
in an Ultra 5, from my tests an FTP transfer will be only 10% (100
Mbit/s x1.1 = 110 Mbit/s) faster using 100% CPU. NFS improvement is
negligible due to the overhead. That is in a Sparc system: the CPU is
the bottleneck, not the NIC.

HD

Marc Tessier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> At first, I thought it was the PCI riser board that was at issue, so I
> installed in a working RTL8139 card from an old parts bin and everything is
> showing up fine :
>
<snip>
>
> Both should be on PCI-2, but the D-link card isn't showing up at all,
> neither in prtconf (should be something like pci1186,4b01) nor in prtdiag.
> So do I have a dud card or is there no hope in getting this to work ?

Why not just use the Realtek card? I have one in an old Sparc box (AXi)
and its works well.

--
Ian Collins.

Ian Collins wrote:
>
> Why not just use the Realtek card? I have one in an old Sparc box (AXi)
> and its works well.
>

The d-link card is a Gigabit Ethernet card. The realtek card was just a
Fast Ethernet card I had laying around to test out the PCI riser card.

Marc Tessier wrote:
> Ian Collins wrote:
>> Why not just use the Realtek card? I have one in an old Sparc box (AXi)
>> and its works well.
>>
>
> The d-link card is a Gigabit Ethernet card. The realtek card was just a
> Fast Ethernet card I had laying around to test out the PCI riser card.

SO it is, but the Realtek Gigabit Ethernet cards also work.

--
Ian Collins.

> GUEST wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm pretty sure it's a compatibility issue and that it won't work,
but
> there's no harm in asking. I bought a cheap DGE-530T card from
D-link and
> tried to install it in my Ultra 5. The system just isn't seeing
the card
> at all.
>
> At first, I thought it was the PCI riser board that was at issue,
so I
> installed in a working RTL8139 card from an old parts bin and
everything is
> showing up fine :
>
> # prtconf
> ....
> pci, instance #1
> ethernet (driver not attached)
>
> That's the Realtek card, for which I haven't bothered installing
the driver.
> Also, prtdiag sees the Realtek card fine, but not the DGE-530T card
:
>
> Bus# Freq
> Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
> --- ---- ---- ---- --------------------------------
----------------------
> 0 PCI-1 33 1 ebus
> 0 PCI-1 33 1 network-SUNW,hme
> 0 PCI-1 33 2 SUNW,m64B ATY,GT-C
> 0 PCI-1 33 3 ide-pci1095,646.1095.646.3
> 0 PCI-2 33 1 ethernet-pci10ec,8139.10ec.8139.+
>
> Both should be on PCI-2, but the D-link card isn't showing up at
all,
> neither in prtconf (should be something like pci1186,4b01) nor in
prtdiag.
> So do I have a dud card or is there no hope in getting this to work
?

Hi.. I am having the same issue on an older FIC VA-503+ MB
with this card... I just cant get xp to see it at all.. any thoughts
would be greatly appreciated..

thanx
mike

On Feb 9, 7:04*pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Marc Tessier wrote:
> > Ian Collins wrote:
> >> Why not just use the Realtek card? *I have one in an old Sparc box (AXi)
> >> and its works well.
>
> > The d-link card is a Gigabit Ethernet card. *The realtek card was justa
> > Fast Ethernet card I had laying around to test out the PCI riser card.
>
> SO it is, but the Realtek Gigabit Ethernet cards also work.
>
> --
> Ian Collins.

I think the author means his 10/100 Realtek card works, not a gigabit
one:
> 0 PCI-2 33 1 ethernet-pci10ec,8139.10ec.8139.+
realtek 8139 is the fast ethernet model.

anyway...

I too am having very bad luck getting gigabit adapters to work with an
Ultra 5.
According to the Ultra 5 specs at Sun:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub...ystems/U5/spec
the PCI interfaces are all 5 volt. What I have been wondering is if
the chipsets
used in these gigabit boards - Marvell 88E8001in the DGE-530T, Realtek
8169S
in the ENLGA-1320 - are limited to 3.3V PCI slots.

The RealTek documentation is kinda cryptic, they claim "3.3V
signaling, 5V
PCI I/O tolerant". I guess that means it works only in 3.3V, but won't
blow up
if you mess things and put it in a 5V slot.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/p...onn=4&ProdID=6

Alas, both D-Link and Marvell offer very poor documentation on their
products (or I am too lazy to search), so I don't know if they are
supposed
to work on 5V or not.

Good luck there, I'll probably just give up running gigabit on the
Ultra 5...

Best regards;

Roberto