Re: SunFire V240 network cards

["Dr. Nagy Elemér Károl y" <eknagy@omikk.bme.hu>]

Dear Mauro,

I hope this helps to debug the problem - a very similar model, a V210 works for me with stock Debian 7 (kernel
3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp) - it has the same network card configuration at first glance:

0000:00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
0000:00:02.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
0003:00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
0003:00:02.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet

# PCI device 0x14e4:/sys/devices/root/f0069c00/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
# PCI device 0x14e4:/sys/devices/root/f00859d4/pci0003:00/0003:00:02.0 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth2"
# PCI device 0x14e4:/sys/devices/root/f00859d4/pci0003:00/0003:00:02.1 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth3"
# PCI device 0x14e4:/sys/devices/root/f0069c00/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

I would try to manually hack and/or re-generate the 70-persistent-net.rules file as a first step.

Also, posting a dmesg output could help a bit.

I would also try installing the firmware-XXX packages but networking in the V210 just works without it and it should be
identical in the v240.

Best wishes:
Elmar