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Article #454Re: Magma Sbus driver v5.4 installs but no device nodes created - ideas?
From: Craig Dewick
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:33
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:33
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Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> writes: >Kralizec Craig <cd@lios.apana.org.au> writes: >>Running it again with the '-v' option shows that the driver isn't being >>loaded. During the installation a 'forceload: /drv/mh' entry gets added to >>/etc/system and this seems to fail as there is an error message saying it >>can't for forceloaded. >this should be "forceload: drv/mh" Sorry I was just remembering out of memory what the postinstall script added to /etc/system. 8-) >Is this a 64 bit driver? By default an Ultra 2 likely runs in 64 bit >mode and won't load 32 bit drivers as a result. That's a good point Casper. I will try the 64-bit driver instead. Magma supply a 64-bit version called 'mh64' so I'll give that a go and see what happens. The machine is running with a pair of 300 Mhz x1191a processors and I believe it is running in 64-bit mode from what I remember of the boot-up messages. Regards, Craig. -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web --> "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email me at "cdewick@poison.lios.apana.org.au". Explore my public-domain Sun Microsystems technical data archive at "http://www.sunshack.org". Sun Micro enthusiasts/users webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu".
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