Hi, I´m having a odd problem, when trying to get a 3COM 3C905c-TM NIC (PCI) to run in Solaris 8 on a intel-machine using the recommended drivers from Sun in the Patch 109866-03 the system crashes on initiating runlevel 2. It seems that one script in /etc/rc2.d (don´t know which yet) is causing a segmentation fault or something like that when calling the NIC, this causes the PCI-bus to lockup and the system is not able to sync the filesystem before rebooting. If I boot the system to runlevel S everything works until I try to reach anywhere beyond the local TCP/IP-stack, for example pinging another machine. Know I don´t find any information on this at Sun, in the patch readme-file it says that there are no known issues with this driver. I tried this on three different machines with different mainboards and cpu:s and it worked on none of them. Before I go through the trouble of manually configurating the card with the NE2000-compatibility drivers (nei) I want to know if anyone has experienced the same problem and found a solution to it, or has a explanation what causes this. //TechMark

Problem solved!!!!! DON'T use the 109866-03 patch from SUN, download the driver package from 3COM instead. It will install the same driver but it wont be identified in the kdmconfig hardware scan but it works. However it seems like you might need to install the 108529-18 kernel update patch to get it stable in multi NIC configurations. I´m not sure about it, still testing it. //TechMark