SunOS4 and Sun i386,, ifconfig -a plumb

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Fri May 3 17:36:24 2002

JP Hindin <jplist_at_globe.net.nz> wrote:
> I see le0 a lot, but I picked up ie0 from my Sun 4/470, which I'm using on
> the 386i. Is this an error on my part? Should I try and set up le0
> instead?

Maybe. ie is the driver for an Intel Ethernet chip/card (I have
vague recollections of the card being a Multibus card in a VME-to-
Multibus frame in a Sun 4/370). le is the driver for an AMD LANCE
chip. I can't remember what Ethernet hardware is in the 386i,
but a LANCE-based design would not be surprising.

Does your 386i boot at all? If so I would expect it to tell you at
boot time what devices the kernel is finding. If you can log in, the
dmesg command should replay those messages for you (if they're still
in the kernel's buffer).

-Frank McConnell
Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 17:36:24 BST