[OmniOS-discuss] Dell R720 & Broadcom ethernet

[Dale Ghent]

There's a chance that, given the utter wreck that the broadcomm source tarball is, that your particular cards' PCI IDs might not be added to /etc/driver_aliases by the package.

All isn't lost if that's the case… but let's see how far you get after the reboot and see what happens.

/dale


On Dec 26, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Scott Roberts <scotty at jhu.edu> wrote:

> I found instructions buried in the DU tar file to remove SUNbge and
> BRCMbxne and was finally able to install the updated drivers.  "dladm
> show-phys" still shows nothing, so I'm rebooting the server now to see if
> it is something else.
> 
> Before the reboot I saw the updated drivers were loaded using modinfo, so
> hopefully the reboot will show good results.
> 
> 
> On 12/26/13, 4:12 PM, "Scott Roberts" <scotty at jhu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> So here's the current state, which is still broken.
>> 
>> I tried installing BRCMbge however OmniOS complains that SUNWbge is
>> already installed.  I've tried every combination of pkgrm I can think of
>> to no avail - I cannot uninstall SUNWbge for the life of me.
>> 
>> I tried installing BRCMbxne however I get a message that the maximum
>> number of instances of BRCMbxne is already installed.
>> 
>> Sigh.
>> 
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