addon lan card on Solaris

The hardware may already be recognized and you just need to configure it for the OS. Use ifconfig to do this - ifconfig eth1 plumb. ifconfig eth1 inet $IP_address netmask $netmask. ifconfig eth1 up. You can do man ifconfig for a better understanding. Those steps will get the card to work without rebooting.

To make your changes permanent follow these steps also: identify the card with a logical name in /etc/hosts that will map to its IP address and assign the network it is on a netmask in /etc/netmasks. Finally, create /etc/hostname.eth1 and insert the name you put in /etc/hosts for this card.

I'm assuming This is a standard ethernet card and eth0 is already identified as the primary. That may not be true and you may need to use something other than eth1 when identifying the new card.

The hardware may already be recognized and you just need to configure it for the OS. Use ifconfig to do this - ifconfig eth1 plumb. ifconfig eth1 inet $IP_address netmask $netmask. ifconfig eth1 up. You can do man ifconfig for a better understanding. Those steps will get the card to work without rebooting.

To make your changes permanent follow these steps also: identify the card with a logical name in /etc/hosts that will map to its IP address and assign the network it is on a netmask in /etc/netmasks. Finally, create /etc/hostname.eth1 and insert the name you put in /etc/hosts for this card.

I'm assuming This is a standard ethernet card and eth0 is already identified as the primary. That may not be true and you may need to use something other than eth1 when identifying the new card.