[Suns-at-Home] software for Sun PC card

[Ken Hansen]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Angus Fox wrote:

> n2vip@verizon.net wrote:
>>> From: Bill Janssen <billj@ieee.org>
>>> Date: 2007/02/28 Wed PM 09:12:44 CST
>>> To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
>>> Subject: [Suns-at-Home] software for Sun PC card
>>> I have this SUN PCI board that I would like to add to my Ultra 10
>>>
>>> I have looked at the Sun web site and find that they have  
>>> multiple driver software
>>> packages and I don't know which one to use.
>>>
>>> I am running Solaris 10.
>>> The board is marked Penguin V1.1.2, 400MHz
>>> The Bar Code is 3750095003682
>>> There is one chip marked SunPCi
>>> MSKB 18
>>> 1998
>>>
>>> So, which software package do I down load.
>> Bill,
>> You want Version 1., it is located here: http://www.sun.com/ 
>> desktop/products/sunpci/downloads.html
>> There are dependencies regarding the version of Solaris the host  
>> (in this case, your Ultra 10) can run (only Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6,  
>> 2.7, or 8)...
>> Hope this helps,
>
> Pretty sure my 400 ran on Sol 9, and right now I have the 700MHz  
> board running XP Pro / Office 2003 on Sol 10 on a U10/440 (turn off  
> graphics acceleration in XP Pro to make Office display correctly)

If you install, then upgrade many combinations are possible. And the  
700 MHz card uses a diferent software version (there are three  
distinct PCI SunPCi cards, each with different support for Solaris  
and client operating systems)

Ken