[Suns-at-Home] Quad Fast Ethernet on an IPX?

[Darrick Burch]

> 1) You might need to update your OBP
> 2) You will probably need to redefine the "net" devalias in OBP to match
> the desired qfe port
> 3) Once you've done 1 & 2, a "boot net" should then boot off the qfe
> port and tftp from that port.
>
> Posting the actual error messages you get to the list and perhaps
> captured output from the serial console would go a long way towards
> helping with this.
>
> I don't have an IPX myself so I can't relate specific experience with
> that model.

Yeah, I suppose that the actual error messages might help a bit, eh? :) 
As soon as I get back home, I'll grab the error messages from minicom and
post them here.

Is it possible to upgrade the OBP on this model?  Like you, I was
suspecting that perhaps my version of OpenBoot had something to do with my
troubles.  However, I was unable to get out of Sun's website what I needed
to know, particularly what the latest version of OpenBoot is for this
machine and what part number the replacement PROM would be.  I'm assuming
that Sun wouldn't freely distribute the PROM code so that I could burn my
own.

I suppose I could also, as someone had mentioned earler, simply get a qe
card, as that would also be supported by Linux (and Solaris support is of
no importance to me).  In that case, perhaps this card might be of some
use to someone?

Thanks,
-Darrick