Re: Is Sun X1033A supported

"Vincent S. Cojot" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Peter and others,

The sun System handbook has a wealth of info for public use..:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Devices/Ethernet/ETHER_SunFastEther_PCI.html

Part numbers:
501-4359 501-5019 540-3981

Vincent

> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ken Roser wrote:
>
>> As a follow-up to this, I've looked around in the kernel source and
>> can  find no support for this board.  I did see a driver for the Quad
>> ethernet board (qfe / X1034A) but not for the X1033A.
>
> So what's the actual part number for that?  501-XXXX is generally
> something you can actually search, say, the Field Engineer's Handbook
> for,  whereas X1033A is not.  If it's the card I think it is, it's a
> perfectly  normal hme card, and will work just fine.
>
> And hey, you could also try it and find out.
>
>> I also opened up the case and found the PCI connectors within are not
>> the same as a Intel PC's PCI connectors, so I suspect there's no
>> alternative source of ethernet expansion.
>
> Huh?  It's got 3 64-bit 5V slots and 1 64-bit 3.3V slot.  Perfectly
> normal  PCI ethernet cards you get at best buy should work just fine.  I
> don't  have a u60, but I've tried netgear cards in my u5 and my sb100,
> and  they work fine.
>
>> Any confirmation of my assumptions or information about an X1033A
>> driver  would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Ken Roser wrote:
>>
>> > Does Aurora support the Sun expansion ethernet card, the X1033A?
>> >
>> > Is there any other less expensive ethernet card supported by Aurora
>> in  the Ultra 30 or Ultra 60?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
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