Yes, you are right. The NIC is BCM440x. I verified it yesterday through windows Device manager.
I installed the bfe driver also. Now I can do ifconfig bfe0..etc. However, my browser is able to detect the website names. May be some nameserver issue. I'll try that. Any other hints ? Thanks Jitendra Milan Jurik wrote On 03/23/07 14:03,: > Hi, > > >>I think this is a pci card. The compatible property was showing >>pci1025,90, pci14e4,170c, pciclass,020000 etc. >> >>How come the pcic nexus driver is loaded on this ethernet card ? Is it >>something wrong ? Shall I unload pcic and load with e1000g ? >> > > > Check your /etc/driver_aliases pcic lines. How it is connected in that > box, who knows? OK, prtconf should know :-) > > And one more thing, your NIC is not e1000g, I overlooked specification > (dual core notebook before Core Duo...), it is BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX > inside. Look at bfe driver here: > > http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ > > Best regards, > > Milan > > >>Brian Xu - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China wrote On 03/22/07 16:18,: >> >>>Jitendra Sasmal ??????: >>> >>> >>>>Hi Brian. >>>>I did that yesterday. The ethernet card(name:pci1025,90, vendor >>>>-id:14e4, device-id:170c,class-code=020000, type= "Ethernet >>>>Controller") is loaded with 'pcic'. >>> >>>this is the ethernet card, a broadcom one. >>>Is it a pccard or a pci one? >>> >>> >>>>"#modinfo|grep pcic" was showing something like this: >>>>PCIC PCMCIA adapter driver 1.10 >>> >>>pcic is a nexus driver. >>> >>> -Brian >>> >>> >>>>Thanks >>>>Jitendra >>>> >>>>Brian Xu - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China wrote On 03/22/07 15:47,: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Jitendra Sasmal ??????: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>I checked my laptop. The ethernet controller is a PCMCIA card and >>>>>>the driver is 'pcic'. The PC card was already loaded with pcic >>>>>>driver, so I no need to add the entry in /etc/driver_aliases. >>>>>>Then I tried to plumb the interface as below,but it gave "No such >>>>>>file or directory" error. >>>>>> >>>>>>#ifconfig pcic0 plumb >>>>>> >>>>>>Any help ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>pcic is a nexus driver for the PCMCIA bridge. not the ethernet driver. >>>>> >>>>>Pls paste the 'prtconf -D' and 'prtconf -v', then I'll have a look at >>>>>it. Or you can grep 'pciclass,020000' in 'prtconf -v' for ethernet >>>>>controller, and 'pciclass,028000' for wifi card. >>>>> >>>>> -Brian >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Thanks >>>>>>Jitendra >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>_______________________________________________ >>laptop-discuss mailing list >>laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
