Hi. After banging my head against a wall all day - but finally solving a mildly hairy problem, I thought I'd share it with the list. Problem: Installing the latest Recommended and Security patch cluster on a Sun Ultra/30 running just-installed Solaris 8 broke /dev/hme. The installed driver for the NIC was: SUNWhmd SunSwift SBus Adapter Drivers Patch id 108981-06, included in the cluster, apparently fixes some minor driver issues. After installing the patch cluster and rebooting, I lost hme0 from ifconfig, and was unable to plumb it again: # ifconfig hme0 inet plumb up ifconfig: plumb: hme0: Bad file number Running ndd didn't help either: # ndd /dev/hme0 couldn't push module 'hme0', No such device or address After some fruitless attempts rebooting and reinstalling patch 108981-06, I finally solved the problem as follows: Solution: Install the following packages from the Solaris 8 CD *before* applying the patch: SUNWhmd SunSwift SBus Adapter Drivers SUNWhmdu SunSwift SBus Adapter Headers SUNWhmdx SunSwift SBus Adapter Drivers (64-bit) I suspect that SUNWhmdu is not strictly necessary, but at this point I'm *not* risking any further downtime to check. After installing those packages, applying said patch and rebooting, all was well. Hope this helps some poor soul in the future. -- Vangelis Haniotakis - Network & Communications Centre, University of Crete _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Oct 3 09:35:22 2001
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