Actually, I do have a port of the fbsd driver as a replacement sitting
in the emancipation repo, just I don't have any hardware to test it,
so it could be replaced with an open driver if it could be tested.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote:
> You wouldn't be trying to use this on a vlan, would you?  pcn hardware is
> *really* old, andld  can't support full MTU vlans.
>
> I've actually been contemplating removing this driver... its the only
> remaining ethernet driver that can't support full MTU vlans.  Additionally,
> its closed source, and the effort to modernize is probably not terribly
> worthwhile.
>
> If you have the option, I'd go get another card.  There are a lot of 1Gb
> cards (anything from realtek ought to work and would be cheap.)  A good
> replacement 100 Mb card would be a Linksys LNE100TX card (version 4.x or
> newer), which can still be found at many retailers.  (There are almost no
> other 100 Mb NICs still on the market.)
>
>    -- Garrett
>
> On 03/08/10 23:50, Lee wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Really hoping someone out there can help.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lee
>>
>
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