On 2007/01/20 05:11, openbsd neophyte wrote: > i'm trying to install OpenBSD 4 on a sparc64 machine (an ultra 5.) > i'm having some trouble because the system isn't able to use the NIC. > > i'm having some trouble because the system isn't seeing the NIC when the > initial option is given to setup any interfaces on the system. > the install process only allows me to configure the native ultra5's > native hme0 interface.
Realtek 8169 uses the re driver, it's not in the ramdisk kernels for sparc64, but it is in GENERIC. It should show up when you reboot. > come to thinkg of it, the system also has a 4-port sun fastethernet, That's some other problem.

