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Installing a NIC on Solaris 8

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by cp409sd

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I installed a NIC (one that is is the Hardware Compatability list for Intel) and I can't seem to configure the interface. When I execute 'netstat -ain', or 'ifconfig -a' it only lists the loopback adapter. How do I get it to recognize my NIC?

Actually, I have tried a couple of NIC's that were on the hardware compatability list, but have gotten the same result. When I press 'esc' during bootup and have this utility scan for devices, it does come up with a generic 'Ethernet Network Adapter'. If it finds it here I am not sure why I can't "see" it or access it at the command prompt. There are no drivers for Solaris for any of the NIC's I've tried. Am I missing something, or why is it so difficult to add a NIC to a Solaris box?

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by ryttinch

Have you tried plumbing the cards? ie.

# plumb eth0 (or whatever the type of card may be)

The system may be recognizing the card, and it just doesn't know what to do with it. check your /etc/hosts file to make sure there is an entry assigned to an IP address, then add the file /etc/hostname.[name_of_card] with the hostname being the only entry to that file. ie.

# cat abc > /etc/hostname.eth0

Hope this helps.

by devans63139

Sun does not support the 3rd party drivers even though their documentation says you can install any PCI ethernet card. I had to order the Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter.

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