Solaris 7 3/99 Release Notes (Intel Platform Edition)

elxl: elx: After Upgrading, the Ethernet Controller Does Not Work (4193228)

After upgrading an x86 machine with the Etherlink XL Ethernet chip to the Solaris 7 3/99 operating environment, the machine may lose network connectivity and display the following error message when booting:


configuring network interfaces: elxl0: No such device or address

Workaround: Remove the following duplicate entries from the /etc/driver_aliases file:

elx "pci10b7,9000"elx "pci10b7,9050"