creating NIC drivers on Diskette? 2

[lgdpc]

I downloaded the 3com driver and used the commands to uncompress and undecode and created the VOL.000.000 that I need. I am them able to load the driver by chosing the directory it is created in. It all works great, now to my question.

I want to make copies of the VOL.000.000 on diskette. What command do I use to copy the VOL.000.000 to the 3.5 diskette drive so I can just run it from the diskette when loading the driver through software manager? I know I can tar the file to the disk and then extract to a temp directory on the UNIX box and choose that directory when setting up the cards, but I just want to use the disk.

This is SCO UNIX 5.0.7.. Thanks

 

[motoslide]

You should be able to do this with the following command:

# dd if=VOL.000.000 of=/dev/rfd0135ds18 bs=18k

Qualifiers:
1)The driver consists of just that single filename (VOL.000.000).
2)Your system has a diskette drive with that device name.
3)You are sitting in the directory where VOL.000.000 resides.
Personally, I prefer to keep all such drivers on the hard disk in the "VOL.000.xxx" form. That way you don't have to go searching for that diskette if you need to restore the driver in the future.

 

[lgdpc]

Great. I didn't have my syntax right when I tried that command. I was thinking it was a dd command, but it had been so long since I used it.
Thanks

 

[Bonestein]

another question on this topic... I need to install NIC drivers on my SCO 5.0.6 server and have no idea how to install the drivers. So can you help?

oh, i don't know what the NIC is, It is a onboard NIC in a Compaq Proliant, and I have downloaded the correct dirvers and made the proper disks, but don't know how to access the disks.

 

[PHV]

i don't know what the NIC
Take a look at the ouput of the hw command.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[motoslide]

Bonestein:
If you "made the proper disks", we'll assume there was a utility with the download which created disks in the "SCO install" layout, which is typically a CPIO image. The good news is you don't care.
On the SCO box, run "custom", select "software" and "install new".
On that dialog box, choose "from local system", and for media device, select "Floppy Disk Drive 0".
If you get an error regarding the contents of that diskette, then we'll need more details on how you obtained the driver, how it was put on floppy, what the file was called, etc., etc. It's not a daunting task, but there are too many different methods to just guess here.

As for the NIC itself, some of the newer Compaq's use Broadcom, older ones employed Intel PRO100 compatible. I'm sure there are others as well. As PHV stated, you can view what the OS sees using the "hw" command, such as:
# hw -r pci