Infrastructure Software

Hello. I'm getting more and more excited about Solaris/X86 due to all the new development features in 10. So i've loaded up B63 (I've tried previous Express releases in the past). Problem is that I get 2 odd errors at startup.

The first is complaining about IPL 11 conflicting with another device. I went back and reconfigured the devices so that this was no longer and issue but it ultimately made no diffrence.

The second is two worrysome "pcic0: Unable to alloc state" (one for pcic0 and one for pcic1) messages.
When the system comes up the pcic module isn't loaded and obviously I can't even touch my network card.

I'm using a Compaq Armada E500 with a 3COM 3C574-TX PCMCIA networking card. I'm running Solaris10 B63 as stated. I tried to use the XIG PCIC patch but it won't install on Solaris10 and pkgtrans is freaking out when I try and dump the stream to use manually. I tried to dig around in the BIOS, but the BIOS is so restrictive there really isn't anything to do but set security settings.

This is bumming me out, I'd like to be able to develop on X86 using Zones and play with DTrace while in the park/backyard/etc, but it's not much fun without a network connection. Sadly, I do not have an onboard network.

Ideas? Searching around the net hasn't really yeilded any results except a better understanding of how PCIC works.

Thank You!