Steve Zehl wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can help me. I've had a Dell Optiplex 745 for quite
> awhile now, and have been running all versions of LINUX (SUSE, Fedora,
> Ubuntu, etc) with no problems. But every time I try to load Solaris x86,
> either the released V10, or any OpenSolaris version (V11) NONE of them can
> find the Broadcom 5751 NIC. Broadcom does not list a 5751 driver for
> Solaris, they have 570X drivers, which I've tried and doesn't work. I've
> attached both the prtdiag showing the on-board NIC:
>
> Broadcom 5751 NetXtreme Gigabit Controller
>
> and the pkgadd command which all works fine, EXCEPT for the lines:
>
> devfsadm: driver failed to attach: bcme
> Warning: Driver (bcme) successfully added to system but failed to attach
>
> I assume this is because it is the wrong driver. I've sent a request to
> Broadcom, but so far no answer, so i thought i'd post here to see if anyone
> has dealt with this. Does a 5751 driver exist for Solaris 10 or 11?
>
Try bge... I think the 5751 is a BGE supported device. "bge" is
integrated into Solaris, and it should Just Work.
(The 5751 looks like it is a PCIe device, so it lacks multiple tx/rx
rings, and it also appears to lack support for jumbo frames. But it
does have full hardware checksum offload.)
-- Garrett
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