SUMMARY: ifconfig hme1 plumb - no such interface

Hi all , 

I got alot of answers to the problem , most were to try hme0 instead of hme1
but it didn't work.
i tried "grep hme /etc/path_to_inst" like 'Mattehew Stier' suggeseted but it
showed no result.
I also tried to move the hme card to a differnt slot , the id was changed
(hme@3,hme@0),
but the problem remained. 

evetunally after i almost gave up , someone suggested to install the
packages for hme fast ethernet , and that's what i did - "SUNWhmd SUNWhmdu"
- 2 pkg for hme card. 
and it worked like charm. 

thanks to :
Christopher L. Barnard
Kulp , Scott 
abderrahmane samer
who also said that the drivers should be installed. 

and thanks to everyone who replied so quickly. 
Rachel
Peter
Casper
Srinivas
David


Best Regards,

Eyal Edri 
Unix System Administrator 
Avaya Communications 

Email  : eedri@lannet.com
Phone & Fax : 972-3-6458487 
 




-----Original Message-----
From: Eyal Edri [mailto:EEdri@lannet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 6:38 PM
To: Sunmanagers (E-mail)
Subject: ifconfig hme1 plumb - no such interface 


Hi admins , 

I hope you can help me with this problem :
I am trying to configure a 100mb ethernet card on a sparc20 station
(interface : hme1) running solaris 2.5.1 .
(the boot disk , and only disk is an external 18.2 gb Ultrascsi 3 disk) 
the prom has identified the card and showing that there is a network
connection using interface hme1. 
when I try to configure the interface using : ifconfig hme1 plumb / unplumb
- he yells "ifconfig plumb : no such interface". 
here are the actions I tried already and failed :  

 1. I've tried a diffrent disk - old internal disk (4gb) on the same sparc20
with also 2.5.1 - and it worked .
 2. I've installed all 2.5.1 recommeded patches from DEC 2000 (including the
one that fixes the /kernel/drv/hme) .
 3. I've done boot -r / drvconfig . 

all didn't work ,

i just came with an idea of putting an internal boot disk and leaving the
data on the external (myb it will work).

if you have any ideas , please let me know.

thank you , will summarize.  
      

Best Regards,

Eyal Edri 
Unix System Administrator 
Avaya Communications 

Email  : eedri@lannet.com
Phone & Fax : 972-3-6458487 
 


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