Solaris 2.5/2.5.1 x86 Driver Update The Solaris x86 Driver Update is the mechanism by which new device drivers and video support are distributed to our customers. Driver Update releases are placed at: Public WWW: http://access1.sun.com/drivers http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/solaris-x86/sunsoft-drivers/ Public FTP: ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/sun/solaris/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/solaris-x86/sunsoft-drivers/ Sun-internal FTP: ftp://newstop.ebay/sun/Solaris/x86drivers/ All the drivers on this Driver Update have been fully tested by SunSoft and will appear in their current form on the final version of this Driver Update. For complete Driver Update installation instructions and documentation on all previously-released drivers, see the Driver Update Guide. NOTE: You must read the Device Reference Page for each device you intend to use in your Solaris system. You must examine: 1) the x86 Device Configuration Guide originally included with your Solaris software, 2) the full Driver Update Guide from the previous Driver Update final release, and 3) the supplemental Device Reference Pages included here. There are no Device Reference Pages for drivers without special configuration instructions. Driver Update files are compressed whenever possible, to save you download time. Files with a .zip suffix are in standard PKZIP form, files with a .Z suffix are in standard UNIX compress(1) form, and the .bin suffix indicates a file which could not be compressed. Any particular file may appear in more than one compressed form. You need only one form of each file in the release. For instance, you could see these files: bt1.Z bt1.zip bt2.Z bt2.zip bt3.Z bt3.zip You should retrieve *either* the .Z *or* the .zip for each file; resulting in only 3 images (bt1, bt2, bt3). The standard Solaris distribution includes an "uncompress" utility, while unzip and uncompress utilities for DOS, Windows, and UNIX are available from a variety of sources. The uncompressed images should then be copied to diskettes, if you need to install Solaris using the Driver Update, or can be used directly if installing the Driver Update on a running Solaris system. To create diskettes, use the dd command supplied with Solaris, or the DOS version (DD.EXE) which you can find at ftp.uu.net:/vendor/sun/solaris/x86/dd.exe or on Compuserve in the SUNSOFT forum Solaris x86 library. =========================================================================== New or updated drivers in DU7: --------------------------------------- SCSI HBA DRIVERS asc Minor bug fix for reporting unknown bus when encountering Micro Channel bus cpqncr New driver to support Compaq Fast Wide SCSI and Ultra SCSI Controllers (integrated and add-in adapters):Compaq 825 Add-on PCI Controllers, Compaq 825 Add-on EISA Controllers, Compaq Integrated 825 PCI/EISA Controllers, Compaq 875 Add-on PCI Controllers, Compaq Integrated 875 PCI Controllers ncrs Removed support for 53C825-based controllers on Compaq systems; the new cpqncr driver includes support for these controllers on Compaq systems -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ETHERNET NETWORK DRIVERS cnft Added support for Compaq Netelligent 10T PCI with TLAN 2.3 and 10/100 TX PCI with TLAN 2.3 elx Added support for the 3Com 3C900 COMBO card -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SERIAL PORTS DRIVER asy Updated to make it more robustly handle hardware failures from marginal serial port implementations; modem control status sensing has also been improved -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIGURATION DRIVERS inetboot Updated to support cpqncrs driver ufsboot Updated to support cpqncrs driver -------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED MP KERNEL MODULE syspro An updated MP module for Compaq Systempro that fixes some probe conflicts on Compaq ProLiant systems ========================================================================== New VIDEO SUPPORT Compaq ProLiant 1000 (Cirrus Logic GD5420 chipset) Compaq ProLiant 1500 (Cirrus Logic GD5420 chipset) Compaq ProLiant 2000 (Cirrus Logic GD54M30 chipset) Compaq ProLiant 2500 (Cirrus Logic GD5420 chipset) Compaq ProLiant 4000 (Cirrus Logic GD5420 chipset) Compaq ProLiant 4500 (Cirrus Logic GD5424 chipset) Compaq ProLiant 5000 (Cirrus Logic GD5424 chipset) Compaq ProSignia 300/500 (Cirrus Logic GD5420 chipset) Compaq ProSignia 300/5000 (Cirrus Logic GD5424 chipset) ELSA Victory 3D (PCI)(S3 ViRGE Chipset) ELSA Winner 3000-S (PCI)(S3 ViRGE Chipset) Intel TMI/IPG (WD9031A Chipset) Number Nine Imagine 128 Pro (PCI) Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 2e (Imagine 128 V2) STB Lightspeed 128 (PCI)(ET 6000 chipset) Tseng ET 6000 (ET 6000 chipset) =========================================================================== New NOTEBOOK VIDEO SUPPORT Toshiba Portege 650CT B, E, F, H A LCD supported at 640x480x8 B LCD supported at 800x600x8 (and is default LCD resolution) C External monitor supported at 640x480x8, 800x600x8, and 1024x768x8 D LCD and External Monitor supported at 640x480x8 E LCD and External Monitor supported at 800x600x8 F External monitor supported at 1280x1024x8 G LCD and External Monitor supported at 1024x768x8 H External monitor supported at 1024x768x8 Caution - Even though many notebook computers are capable of supporting external monitors at a resolution higher than 640x480, do *not* change the default video resolution on a notebook computer to be anything other than what the internal monitor can support. Higher resolution video modes do not work on the integrated LCD screen. If you start up the window system without an external monitor, you may not see anything on the LCD screen; in some cases, this may even damage your LCD screen.