I thought some virtualization software still used it, or at least still defaulted to it and made it a bit annoying to change the emulated nic (though I might be mistaken about that) -- if someone could confirm that, that might be a decent reason to keep it.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/09/10 07:46, Jason King wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > I happen to have one such NIC, which I picked up just in case we ever did > such an effort. I'm just not sure the effort is ultimately justified by the > value having an updated driver for such ancient hardware would bring. > > If there are other folks on this list who have such hardware and would like > an updated driver for it, it would be good to hear from them. I'm willing > to sponsor an integration effort of your driver if there are enough requests > for it to make the effort worthwhile. > > -- Garrett > >> 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]
