Hi fellow managers, Many thanks to all who responded to my problem, and especially to Bob Cummings, Nathan Dietsch, Johan Wilkstrvm David B. Harrington, Mike (at sky.net... ...don't know the last name!), Chuck (at yahoo.com, don't no yet the last name!) and Daniel Buchner. Most of you directed me to the link speed settings, sending me init scripts to use for forcing speed and disabling autonegociating. In fact, I had made these settings since the beginning. As well, some told me that on the Sun Fire V480, we must configure and fully install both ce0 and ce1 cards in order to have at least one working properly... ...but that doesn't worked for me. I received some notes about installing patches, but like I mentionned in my original problem, I had the latest recommended patches, with these special patches mentionned in Sun docs. I also mentionned that I did a check on the switch port configuration and that was true. *But*, the test I made was to put the cable in my RJ45 port of my laptop, I forced the laptop to be in "100Mbps, full duplex" and the laptop was working greatly. So that was enought to tell me that it was working well. However, at the end of the afternoon tomorrow, I was thinking about throwing the V480 by the window, when I remembered an odd situation I had in the past: I was then close of giving up when we realised that the network admin had simply "mistaken" out port, disabling it and answering to our questions "yeah, your port is OK"... ...so I took a drop directly from another port on the switch and guess what?? Oh yeah, the little lights came to life on the NIC! This was different, because this time my laptop was working well and I was in the right subnet. I just picked up the network guy and told him about my problem... At first, he obviously laught at me, but when I showed him the lights up when connecting to the other switch, his smile turned suddenly down... Of course, he didn't told me what was wrong, but at least, it's now working. So, that's it. Thanks for all of you, once again! Ben Audet _______________________________________________________________ Benoit Audet Conseiller - TELUS solutions d'affaires Commission administrative des rigimes de retraite et d'assurances (CARRA) Service de l'assistance et des technologies (SAT) Til : 418.528.1303 (CARRA) benoit.audet@carra.gouv.qc.ca benoit.audet@telussa.com _______________________________________________________________ Received: from mx2.rt.gouv.qc.ca (himalia.rt.gouv.qc.ca [142.213.32.22]) by SG01.carra.gouv.qc.ca; Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:54 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mx2.rt.gouv.qc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8205A8787C for <benoit.audet@carra.gouv.qc.ca>; Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx2.rt.gouv.qc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (himalia.rt.gouv.qc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03062-01 for <benoit.audet@carra.gouv.qc.ca>; Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sunportal.sunmanagers.org (sunportal.sunmanagers.org [128.100.17.250]) by mx2.rt.gouv.qc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CD887888 for <benoit.audet@carra.gouv.qc.ca>; Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sunportal.sunmanagers.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sunportal.sunmanagers.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A861E5A8; Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Delivered-To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Received: from SG01.carra.gouv.qc.ca (unknown [142.213.67.120]) by sunportal.sunmanagers.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C41191E5A8 for <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>; Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from GWDOM02-Message_Server by SG01.carra.gouv.qc.ca with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 13 May 2004 09:35:59 -0400 Message-Id: <s0a3417f.095@SG01.carra.gouv.qc.ca> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.5.1 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:35:13 -0400 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt=20Audet?=" <benoit.audet@carra.gouv.qc.ca> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 1.01b X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Subject: NIC configuration problem with SunFire V480 X-BeenThere: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: The Sun Managers Mailing List <sunmanagers.sunmanagers.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers>, <mailto:sunmanagers-request@sunmanagers.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://sunportal.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers> List-Post: <mailto:sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org> List-Help: <mailto:sunmanagers-request@sunmanagers.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers>, <mailto:sunmanagers-request@sunmanagers.org?subject=subscribe> Sender: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org Errors-To: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at rt.gouv.qc.ca Hi managers, We just received a splendid SunFire V480 here, and I have performed a Solaris 8, hardware rev. 2/02 installation on it. On the SunFire V480, there's two onboard cards, which are "ce0" and "ce1". These two interfaces seem to be ok (I've seen both with the "show-nets" command at the PROM) and at the install of Solaris 8, I had the choice for both interfaces to use. Currently, I plugged the "ce0" (the lower connector on the back of the machine) in a 100Mbps - full duplex port. I tested the port AND the cable, plugging it in the laptop I use as the installation console and I connect without any problem. However, once Solaris installed and patched with the recommended patches cluster, I can't get this "ce0" NIC interface to work! I tryed to force it at 100Mbps - full duplex (with the ndd commands, etc.), but I can't get this NIC to connect. I browsed the web a bit, but found too much contradicting informations on this, and I'm starting to get a bit lost... I as well saw something telling that Solaris 8, hw 2/02 was not a "goob" version to use with V480, that I should use something like Solaris 8, but 5/03... Any workarounds, ideas? That would be fairly welcome. As usual, I will of course summarise! :-) Thanks in advance! _______________________________________________________________ Benoit Audet Conseiller - TELUS solutions d'affaires Commission administrative des rigimes de retraite et d'assurances (CARRA) Service de l'assistance et des technologies (SAT) Til : 418.528.1303 (CARRA) benoit.audet@carra.gouv.qc.ca benoit.audet@telussa.com _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri May 14 09:47:30 2004
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