I installed a second nic on my sun box, but when I run ifconfig -a I only see loopback and the first one. What do I need to do to configure it. thanks

Hi. Is your nic supported by Solaris 8.0? Because if answer is not, you must to install the corect driver. Afterthat will be possible to bring up your nic. So, for a realtek 8029 you can follow the next example(it's just an example-2 steps): (1). If you doesnt have the drv(if you have it skip (1) and proceed with (2)): # volcheck //if you have the driver on floppy # cp /floppy/floppy0/nei /kernel/drv/ //copy the driver, not the archive!!! for archive use # tar zxvf archive_name (or pkgadd -d pkg_name) # vi /kernel/drv/nei.conf and add the next row: name="nei" parent="isa" reg=1,0xd200,0x1f interrupts=10; //this row or this file can be total different!!!! be very careful, it's most sensitive part of procedure (2).If you have drv... Create a new file /etc/hostname.nei0 with desired address # echo "192.168.100.12" > /etc/hostname.nei0 Add the next row to /etc/hosts: 192.168.100.12 mycomputer.edu.ro add drv if u needed #add_drv /kernel/drv/nei; devlinks #/usr/sbin/drvconfig -i nei #ifconfig nei0 plumb #touch /reconfigure; reboot That's all... #ifconfig -a //must work... It's little difficult, but everything will be fine at the end(I hope :) Regards, Sorin

what kind of interface did you install? Check $ dmesg |grep hme or if it's not an hme use eri, ge, le the first is or hme0 or eri0 and the second should be some thing like hme1.. ifconfig hme1 plumb ifconfig hme1 ip.ad.re.ss netmask \ 255.255.255.0 up Make it permanent via: /etc/hostname.hme0 hostname /etc/hosts add ip and hostname Be aware of routing ... hope this helps..