Subject: Re: sun 4 way pci network card
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/11/2005 22:28:08
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 09:47:17AM -0400, Russell McManus wrote:
>> 
>> I picked up a sun microsystems 4way pci ethernet card, and plugged it
>> into my i386 box today running 2.99, and here is the relevant parts of
>> dmesg:
>> 
>> Sun Microsystems PCIO Happy Meal Ethernet (ethernet network, revision 0x01) at pci3 dev 3 function 1 not configured
>> 
>> Any ideas whether this is a supported card, and if so what I need to
>> enable in my kernel config?
>
> YEs, you need to add the hme(4) driver to your kernel config file,
> at last.  Also, you may need to upgrade your kenrel to a more recent
> current (maybe 3.0_BETA would do it too).

Thanks! This worked beautifully.

# uname -a
NetBSD cl-user.org 3.0_BETA NetBSD 3.0_BETA (CL_USER) #0: Sun Sep 11 12:47:03 UTC 2005  root@cl-user.org:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/CL_USER i386

# dmesg | grep hme
hme0 at pci3 dev 0 function 1: Sun Happy Meal Ethernet, rev. 1
hme0: interrupting at irq 10
hme0: Ethernet address 08:00:20:e2:17:38
ukphy1 at hme0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
hme1 at pci3 dev 1 function 1: Sun Happy Meal Ethernet, rev. 1
hme1: interrupting at irq 5
hme1: Ethernet address 08:00:20:e2:17:39
ukphy2 at hme1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
hme2 at pci3 dev 2 function 1: Sun Happy Meal Ethernet, rev. 1
hme2: interrupting at irq 11
hme2: Ethernet address 08:00:20:e2:17:3a
ukphy3 at hme2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
hme3 at pci3 dev 3 function 1: Sun Happy Meal Ethernet, rev. 1
hme3: interrupting at irq 9
hme3: Ethernet address 08:00:20:e2:17:3b
ukphy4 at hme3 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface

To plug other computers in to these ports, will I need to use straight
CAT5 cables, or reversed ones?

-russ