ifconfig -a will only show devices that are already plumbed. To quote man 
ifconfig:

"Before an interface has been plumbed, the interface will
not show up in the output of the ifconfig -a command."

Furthermore, you can only plumb a device that has a driver. For the broadcom 
card I put in my example, it is supported by the bge driver, and is detected as 
such. If not, it would have to be added to the driver_aliases database. It is 
suggested to use update_drv to add the definition instead of editing directly 
/etc/driver_aliases:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=2490&#2490

So you run scanpci, then look for the vendor and device id. There are a few 
other tips found on this post:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=16560&tstart=0

Of course, all of that assumes that there is a proper driver for the network 
card already in solaris. There are times when this is not the case, so you also 
have to find a driver, install it etc...

Francois
 
 
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