Gary Quiring

I am trying to install S9/X86 on a KT400 chipset which uses a RealTek
8100 series NIC. I downloaded the realtek driver and ran the install
script. If I do a ifconfig -a I see the interface with a MAC address:

rtls0: flags: 1000843<UP BROADCAST>, RUNNING, MULTICAST, IPv4,> mtu
1500 index 2 inet 192.168.0.37 netmask ffffff00
broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 0:20:ed:90:b6:1a

prtconf:
pci10ec, 8139, instance #0

netstat -rn
dest gateway flags ref use interface
192.168.0.0 192.168.0.37 U 1 53 rtls0
127.0.0.1 120.0.0.1 UH 22 10098
lo0

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.37 mybox loghost

I can ping localhost and the .37 address only. Cabling is fine, as I
have another drive with Linux on it in the same box and it works.

I used the following documents:
http://solaris-x86.org/documents/tut.../network.mhtml

Thanks
Gary Quiring

Gary Quiring

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:35:06 -0500, Gary Quiring <gquiring@msn.com>
wrote:

>I am trying to install S9/X86 on a KT400 chipset which uses a RealTek
>8100 series NIC. I downloaded the realtek driver and ran the install
>script. If I do a ifconfig -a I see the interface with a MAC address:
>
>rtls0: flags: 1000843<UP BROADCAST>, RUNNING, MULTICAST, IPv4,> mtu
> 1500 index 2 inet 192.168.0.37 netmask ffffff00
> broadcast 192.168.0.255
>ether 0:20:ed:90:b6:1a
>
>prtconf:
>pci10ec, 8139, instance #0
>
>netstat -rn
>dest gateway flags ref use interface
>192.168.0.0 192.168.0.37 U 1 53 rtls0
>127.0.0.1 120.0.0.1 UH 22 10098
>lo0
>
>/etc/hosts:
>127.0.0.1 localhost
>192.168.0.37 mybox loghost
>
>I can ping localhost and the .37 address only. Cabling is fine, as I
>have another drive with Linux on it in the same box and it works.
>
>I used the following documents:
>http://solaris-x86.org/documents/tut.../network.mhtml
>
>Thanks
>Gary Quiring
I also created:
/etc/hostname.rtls0: 192.168.0.37
/etc/netmasks: 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0

Juergen Keil

Gary Quiring <gquiring@msn.com> writes:

> I am trying to install S9/X86 on a KT400 chipset which uses a RealTek
> 8100 series NIC. I downloaded the realtek driver and ran the install
> script. ...

> I can ping localhost and the .37 address only. Cabling is fine, as I
> have another drive with Linux on it in the same box and it works.

Typical problem is a non working interrupt for the NIC, so realtek's
driver is unable to "see" incomming packets.

- If your BIOS has a "PNP OS" (Plug&Play OS) setting, disable it.

For use with Solaris, the BIOS should assign resources to all PCI
cards in the system, and it does this when "PnP OS" is set to "NO"
or "DISABLED"

- Solaris' ACPI support may have problems with your system's ACPI
tables. If your System's BIOS has on option to disable ACPI,
try it. Or use the following command from within Solaris to
disable ACPI (reboot solaris after that):

eeprom acpi-user-options=0x2

- The IOAPIC in some of the newer chipsets (via kt400, nvidia nforce2)
seems to cause problems for solaris, resulting in non-working
interrupts. Try to disable the "APIC" in the system's BIOS, if
there's such an option. If case the file /var/adm/messages contains
"pcplusmp"and "ioapic" messages...

egrep 'pcplusmp|apic' /var/adm/messages

... you can also try to disable the ioapic by adding the following
line to /etc/system (reboot solaris after that):

set pcplusmp:apic_forceload = -1

Gary Quiring

On 27 Dec 2003 15:29:20 +0100, Juergen Keil <jk@tools.de> wrote:

> set pcplusmp:apic_forceload = -1
That did it: set pcplusmp:apic_forceload = -1

I also replaced the onboard NIC with an Intel Pro 100. It did not
work also. Finally did the apic_forceload and all is good.

Thank you
Gary