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 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 can retrieve either file starting with "bt1" and either file starting with "bt2", resulting in one "boot" file and one "bt3" (Solaris Driver diskette) file after decompression. 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 this release: --------------------------------------- Disk Interface Driver ata Added support for booting from CD-ROM in Compaq LTE 5000 series of notebook computers SCSI HBA Drivers adp Bug fixes to AHA-2940 family of adapters; added support for AHA-2940AU asc New AdvanSys SCSI adapters, in three categories: 1)\x11Connectivity Products: ABP510/5150-Bus-Master ISA, ABP5140-Bus-Master ISA PnP, ABP5142-Bus-Master ISA PnP with floppy, ABP920-Bus-Master PCI, ABP930-Bus- Master PCI, ABP930U-Bus-Master PCI Ultra, ABP960-Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC, ABP960U-Bus- Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra; 2) Single Channel Products: ABP542-Bus-Master ISA with floppy, ABP742-Bus- Master EISA, ABP842-Bus-Master VL, ABP940-Bus- Master PCI, ABP940U-Bus-Master PCI Ultra, ABP970-Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC, ABP970U-Bus- Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra; 3) Dual Channel Products: ABP752-Dual Channel Bus-Master EISA, ABP852-Dual Channel Bus-Master VL, ABP950-Dual Channel Bus- Master PCI Ethernet Network Drivers dnet Fixed a number of bugs: stress tests cause dnet to fall off the net; potential TX descriptor corruption and false busy loops; does not allow 10 Mb on Cogent EM110TX; performance of 100 Mb/sec cards is slow; automatic detection of AUI and BNC fails; only first port works on multiport cards; non-portable code; problems with multiple cards and/or shared interrupts; Solaris 2.4 operating environment xpci support not implemented correctly; cannot have both BNC/AUI and 10Base-T DNET cards in Solaris 2.5 operating environment; interrupts setup incorrectly under Solaris 2.4 operating environment; cannot netboot off those SMC9332BDT and Cogent EM440 cards with subvendor IDs; IRQs do not get assigned properly on multiport cards; driver panics under Solaris 2.5 operating environment Support has been added for a the following adapters: CNET PowerNIC CN935E Compex ReadyLINK ENET32 B2 Cogent EM100TX / Adaptec ANA-6910/TX Cogent EM110TX / Adaptec ANA-6911/TX Cogent EM400TX / Adaptec ANA-6940/TX Cogent EM440 / Adaptec ANA-6944/TX Cogent EM960C / Adaptec ANA-6901/C Cogent EM960TP / Adaptec ANA-6901 Cogent EM964TP / Adaptec ANA-6904 D-Link DE530CT D-Link DE530CT+ Diversified Technologies LBC5025 Kingston KNE100TX Kingston KNE40BT Rockwell RNS 2300 Rockwell RNS 2340 SMC EtherPower PCI (8432 T) SMC EtherPower PCI (8432 BT) SMC EtherPower PCI (8432 BTA) SMC EtherPower 10/100 (9332BDT) SMC EtherPower 10/100 (9332DST) Znyx EtherAction ZX311 Znyx NetBlaster ZX312 Znyx NetBlaster ZX314 Znyx NetBlaster ZX315 Znyx NetBlaster ZX342 Znyx NetBlaster ZX344 Znyx NetBlaster ZX345 Znyx NetBlaster ZX346 Znyx NetBlaster ZX348 el 3Com EtherLink II, II/16: Fixed a number of probe conflicts whereby this driver would interfere with an elx card or an smc card or with ata on a Compaq docking station; automatic port configuration should now work correctly elx Added support for 3Com Etherlink XL (3C900 TPO) and Fast Etherlink XL (3C905) elink 3Com EtherLink 16: Fixed a problem in which the realmode driver would not work in turbo mode fmvel Fujitsu FMV-183: Updated Device Reference Page to describe how to work around conflict with nei driver iee Interl EtherExpress 16: Fixed a problem in which the driver failed to come up on the network on a P60; fixed a problem in which the driver hung the network after attempting to copy a large file; MCA support is now implemented correctly; the driver also supports automedia detection ieef Intel EtherExpress Flash32, PRO/100: implemented automedia/autospeed detection and fixed a number of other bugs; driver incorrectly handles RPL request packets; driver uses old-style PCI support; driver generates CRC errors under stress; driver checks all four bytes of EISA ID iprb Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B, PRO/10+ PCI: Fixed a number of bugs: network connection drops on the way up; board structures should be declared volatile; zero message block fix; this driver also contains a number of performance enhancements nei NE2000 and compatible devices: Updated Device Reference Page to describe how to work around conflict with fmvel driver pcn Updated to prevent Compaq XL 560/590 systems from hanging after a soft reboot; fixed a bug in which netinstall would not work at IRQs above 7 FDDI Network Driver sxp Netinstall with Rockwell RNS 2200 FDDI adapter now supported PC Card (PCMCIA) Hardware pcser Fixed a problem in which some PC card modems dropped a connection immediately after establishing it, or would not echo characters or dial