nc542m solaris

[Craggy]

We are trying to get some bl460c blades with nc542m modules working with Solaris 11.

I know there is a Solaris 10 driver which should work for these cards as thry are based on the Mellanox ConnectX-2 chipset and Solaris have a Hermon driver and mcxe for 10Gb ethernet adapters using the Mellanox chips.

We could probably use the Solaris 10 driver on Solaris 11 but cannot find anywhere to download it.

Curious thing is that we installed Solaris 10 on one of these blades and although the mcxe driver is in /kernel/drv/amd64 it fails to attach to the nc542m module

Has anyone managed to get one of thee NICs working under Solaris?

How can we get ou hands on the driver for nc542m uder Solaris?

Thanks

[TVVJ]

Hi,

As is evident from the driver download page for NC54M, Solaris is not a supported operating system  and hence there is no driver for this operating system from HP.

Regards,

Vijayasarathy

[Craggy]

Thanks for the reply.

However, in the quickspecs PDF for the nc542m nic it says Solaris 10 is supported.

[TVVJ]

Hi,

The QuickSpecs does not include Solaris as a supported operating system.

Operating System Support

Microsoft:
          Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-and 64-bit)
          Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
          Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and R2
          Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
          Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server
          Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard (32 and x64)
          Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise (32 and x64)

Linux:
          RH4 x86
          RH4 AMD64EM64T
          RH5 x86
          RH5 AMD64EM64T
          SLES9 x86
          SLES9 AMD64EM64T
          SLES 10 x86 and AMD64EM64T

Novel Netware:
          NetWare 6.5
          Netware OES (6.5)

NDIS 2 for DOS unattended install (40K or less in size)

Virtualization:
          MS Virtual Server support on Windows 2008
          VMware ESX 4.0
          VMware ESX 3.5 (1Q2010)

Regards,

Vijayasarathy

[Dennis Handly]

>The QuickSpecs does not include Solaris as a supported operating system.

In particular:

January 13, 2012 - From Version 8 to 9
    Solaris was removed from Operating System Support