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Hi!

I'm pretty sure it's a compatibility issue and that it won't work, but
there's no harm in asking. I bought a cheap DGE-530T card from D-link and
tried to install it in my Ultra 5. The system just isn't seeing the card
at all.

At first, I thought it was the PCI riser board that was at issue, so I
installed in a working RTL8139 card from an old parts bin and everything is
showing up fine :

# prtconf
....
pci, instance #1
ethernet (driver not attached)

That's the Realtek card, for which I haven't bothered installing the driver.
Also, prtdiag sees the Realtek card fine, but not the DGE-530T card :

Bus# Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---- -------------------------------- ----------------------
0 PCI-1 33 1 ebus
0 PCI-1 33 1 network-SUNW,hme
0 PCI-1 33 2 SUNW,m64B ATY,GT-C
0 PCI-1 33 3 ide-pci1095,646.1095.646.3
0 PCI-2 33 1 ethernet-pci10ec,8139.10ec.8139.+

Both should be on PCI-2, but the D-link card isn't showing up at all,
neither in prtconf (should be something like pci1186,4b01) nor in prtdiag.
So do I have a dud card or is there no hope in getting this to work ?

In article <[email protected]>,
Marc Tessier <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm pretty sure it's a compatibility issue and that it won't work, but
>there's no harm in asking. I bought a cheap DGE-530T card from D-link and
>tried to install it in my Ultra 5. The system just isn't seeing the card
>at all.

Is the card DOA? Have you tested it in another system or a PC?

John
[email protected]