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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > networking-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
