Summary: SunPCI 3 card in Solaris 10 machine

Dear managers,

I googled some more and finally found the solution. Doing

	cd /opt/SUNWspci3/drivers/solaris/
	ln -s sunpcidrv.280 sunpcidrv.2100
	ln -s sunpcidrv.280.64 sunpcidrv.2100.64

solves the problem.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

   Andreas

> I am trying to move a working Sun PCI configuration from a Solaris 9 
> (Sun Blade 150) to a Solaris 10 (Sun Fire 240) machine. I moved the 
> card and rebooted the target machine. I then did.
>
> 	touch /reconfigure
> 	reboot
>
> I then installed the software with
>
> 	pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/Product
>
> This gave me the following error:
>
> ...
> ## Executing postinstall script.
>
> The SunPCi 3 driver installation has failed.
>   Cannot find the driver file: sunpcidrv.2100
> There is a SunPCi daemon process already running as pid 20434
> pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully
>
> Installation of <SUNWspci3> partially failed.
>
> I googled for this and found the following hint.
>
> 	cd /opt/SUNWspci3/drivers/solaris/
> 	ln -s sunpci.290 sunpcidrv.2100
>       	ln -s sunpci.290.64 sunpci.2100.64
>
> I copied the /pc directory from the Solaris 9 to the Solaris 10 
> machine and then tried to start it
>
> 	/opt/SUNWspci3/bin/sunpci
>
> This gave me
>
> /dev/sunpci3drv*: No such file or directory
> The SunPCi device driver is not installed.
>
> To run the startup program:
>
>      1. Type: su, then enter your superuser password.
>      2. Type: cd /opt/SUNWspci3/drivers/solaris
>      3. Type: ./sunpcload
>
> It tried that and got
>
> The SunPCi 3 driver installation has failed.
>   Cannot find the driver file: sunpcidrv.2100
>
> 	cd /opt/SUNWspci3/drivers/solaris/
> 	ls -l
>
> total 2498
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          20 Nov 28 13:19 makemaster -> 
> ../../bin/makemaster
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin           48 Dec 18  2002 spcdevlink.tab
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          13 Nov 28 13:26 sunpci.2100.64 
> -> sunpci.290.64
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          10 Nov 28 13:26 sunpcidrv.2100 
> -> sunpci.290
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       121384 Jan 14  2003 sunpcidrv.270
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       202480 Jan 14  2003 sunpcidrv.270.64
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       163568 Jan 14  2003 sunpcidrv.280
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       274096 Jan 14  2003 sunpcidrv.280.64
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       165404 Jan 14  2003 sunpcidrv.290
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       275928 Jan 14  2003 sunpcidrv.290.64
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin           78 Oct 17  1998 sunpcidrv.conf
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin         4087 Dec 23  2002 sunpcload
>
> I am stuck. Any ideas? Thanks a lot!
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