SUMMARY - Solaris 2.4 and Quad Ethernet card

From: Ken Meehan (meehan@neptune.progress.COM)
Date: Wed Jul 19 1995 - 01:07:43 CDT


Thanks very much to those who replied to me.
My original posting was (on Tue, 11 Jul 1995)

> Is there anybody out there successfully running Solaris 2.4 on a system that
> also has a quad Ethernet card configured??
>
> We have a SparcServer 1000 running Solaris 2.4. It has a Quad UTP Ethernet
> card in it as well as the integrated thick Ethernet Port. When they
installed
> this system several months ago (before I was here) they had problems with the
> Quad Ethernet, they said they were told of a Solaris 2.4 problem with that
> card. So consequently the system only got connected onto one subnet. I am
> hoping that the issue has been resolved.

I got lots of responses, the answer is that with Solaris 2.4 you must have
these patches

101945-27: (or later) Jumbo Kernel patch
102003-02: SunOS 5.4: qe driver fixes

We had version 01 of the above quad Ethernet patch and were experiencing
frequent NFS timeouts on those lines.

Thanks again to all these folks who responded:

blymn@awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
Sean Skilton <seans@ctpm.uq.edu.au>
Mr Brian Meilak <meilak@fit.qut.edu.au>
Tomas Felner <felner@inf.ethz.ch>
Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>
Pell Emanuelsson <pell@lysator.liu.se>
David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>
Joakim Hartikainen <Joakim.Hartikainen@pacesetter.se>
fallan@awadi.com.AU (Frank Allan - Network Manager)
Bob Hendley <R.J.Hendley@cs.bham.ac.uk>
fallan@awadi.com.AU (Frank Allan - Network Manager)
fmrco!jounieh!sbellan@uunet.uu.net (Simon Bellan)
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk
David Stewart <D.A.Stewart@ee.ed.ac.uk>
blplante@system9.unisys.com (Brian L Plante)
Mike Rembis <ebumfr@ebu.ericsson.se>
tdavidm@su509u.tus.ssi1.com (David Murillo)
sozoa@atmel.com (Steve Ozoa)
crossmd@heu538.uk.sb.com
Mark <mark@lochard.com.au>
billh@dcvast.com (Bill Holzapfel)
Jean.Chappelle@Corp.Sun.COM (Jean Chappelle)
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
paul@tc.fluke.COM (Paul Lutt)
jeremyh@chiron.nabaus.com.au (Jeremy Hunt - Optimation)
Jeff Marble <jmarble@zambezi.cambric.com>

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