Trying to install Solaris 10 x86 on a whitebox. Install seemed to go ok, but never asked me for network info beyond the host name (as FC does, for example). That seemed odd, but figured there must be a manual way to do this. However, haven't been able to either find a way to manually configure, nor can I figure out which device in /dev is my ethernet controller (which is on motherboard). Have had this machine up on FC3 happily on the network, so I know it works. Have tried sys-unconfig, and never get asked for domain / IP Address / etc. ifconfig -a shows only lo0. Doing prtconf -pv gives me: Node 0x1c7f58: assigned addresses: 81009010.00000000.0000c000.00000000.00000100.82009014.00000000.ee001000.00000000.00000100 class-code: 00020000 compatible: 'pci1106,3065.1106.102.78' + 'pci1106.3065.102' + 'pci1106,102' + 'pci1106,3065.78' + 'pci1106,3065' + 'pciclass,020000' + 'pciclass,0200' device-id: 00003065 devsel-speed: 00000001 interrupts: 00000001 max-latency: 00000008 min-grant: 00000003 model: 'PCI: 1106,3065.1106.102.78 - Ethernet Controller' name: ''ci1106,102' power-consumption: 00000001.00000001 reg: 00009000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.01009010.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000100.02009014.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000100 revision-id: 00000078 slot: 00000000 subsystem-id: 00000102 subsystem-vendor-id: 00001106 unit-address: '12' vendor-id: 00001106 Aside from apparently being an ethernet controller, I don't know what that all means. Any clues as to how to make this box talk on the network?

It looks like your NIC is a VIA Rhine, so you'll need the rh driver. Build it, install, then you may or may not need to "drvconfig -i rh", "devfsadm -i rh". Finally, "ifconfig rh0 plumb" and ifconfig as desired. To configure it for DHCP on future boots, touch "/etc/hostname.rh0" and "/etc/dhcp.rh0". A static IP would be configred in the hostname file, I think.

Solaris mostly bypass the RTL8139 NIC model. Although Patches are available to built with kernel for those unsupported cards, But i think best way to use 3com , Intel Express pro and some other supported models according to Sun HCL and do sys-unconfig Zahid