Solaris

Hello all, I'm new here.. Can you please help me with device driver on Solaris10, Sun SPARC server; I need to know how to test if a PCI card is recognized and has a working driver. How to do it? As it is, the driver seems to be 'not attached', but some say it could be because the PCI card is not used. Also, we need to change permissions on /dev/mux0 which points to /devices/... but it says "file not found" When trying to initialize/use the PCI card it says "cannot open device". Please help.

- run prtconf -pv to show the pci identification details for the installed card.
- then, find vendor-id and device-id, example:
vendor-id: 00008086
device-id: 0000103b
- grep 82801DB /boot/solaris/devicedb/master
- add the identifier for your driver into /etc/driver_aliases.
- Load the driver with the modload command, example:modload /kernel/drv/iprb

Thanks kimo, I'll try that first thing in morning. If it works, I'll send you holidays gift. I was also considering trying 'reconfiguration boot', could that help in any way? We once did such a boot and at least it didn't break anything. It is very very important that I don't mess up something on that server.

edit: there's also this error

Code:

svc.startd[7]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning] svc:/system/manifest-import:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/manifest-import" failed with exit status 208.

I guess you mean here:

Code:

grep 8086,103b /boot/solaris/devicedb/master

---------- Post updated at 14:40 ---------- Previous update was at 12:46 ----------

That would help indeed although you can simply run:

Code:

devfsadm -v

for the same result. Then don't modify /etc/driver_aliases as previously suggested. Incorrect entries might make your system unbootable (but still fixable). You should experience on a test system, not a critical one.
Anything of interest in this service log file ? (/var/svc/log/system-manifest-import:default.log)

OK, we tried reconfiguration reboot (with touch reconfigure and init 6) but nothing changed.
Still, at least its not worse than before
I was hoping that reboot would change /dev/mux0 but it didn't!
Its the same old:

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     sys           41 Jan 12  2009 /dev/mux0 -> ../devices/pci@1d,700000/pci5555,3@1:mux0

and I believe that is the root of our problem (system was OK before 2009). perhaps we should delete that link and do reboot? But how to backup it first?

Here is the relevant line in /etc/driver_aliases :

Code:

 mux dvb

About manifest-import error, it somehow sorted itself out, there are NO errors in dmesg.

If your problem is that dangling symbolic link, you can run

Code:

devfsadm -Cv

to clear it.

@jlliagre
OK, thank you, I'll try that.

Just a thought.. Would it be possible to simply remove it manually with rm ?
(I'm worried a bit that devfsadm might delete some other dev that is essential)