Lee wrote: > I am new to Solaris/OpenSolaris but have a reasonable amount of experience > with Linux. I have recently installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111b X86 on a > HP Visualize P750 workstation. The system is booting and running fine with > the majority of hardware and services operating correctly. > > However I am having problems with the network adaptor that I cannot find a > solution to. The ethernet adaptor is an AMD PCnet32 LANCE and is using the > pcn driver. The adaptor is able to obtain an IP address and other network > configuration details via DHCP, however network performance is very slow and > unreliable. Web pages do not load, and establishing an SSH connection to the > linux box next to it takes around 5 minutes.
Wow. LANCE! Great memories from the '80s. ;-} > The same network card has been tested on the same physical network using a > Ubuntu live cd. Additionally I have tried another network cable and switch > port. > > dladm show-ether yields the following: > Link: pcn0 ptype: current state:unknown auto:no speed-duplex: 0M > pause:none > > MTU is set to 1500 (shown by dladm show-linkprop pcn0) > > Not really sure where to go from here, but without a network connection the > box isn't very much fun! Any advice or guidance would be appreciated. The description of the problem sounds like one of two possible fairly generic things: the IP address you're getting doesn't have a DNS PTR record, or the network interface (or switch) is mistakenly configured with a forced duplex setting. The other possibility would be something wrong with the pcn driver. Trying a different card might help isolate the problem. If it is the driver, you'll want to contact [email protected] and/or file a problem with defect.opensolaris.org. You'll probably want to gather information using "netstat -ni", "netstat -s", and "kstat". Plus any messages that might show up in syslog. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
