Using whatever operating system currently have on the machine, you could 
also run the Device Detection Tool:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp

It's a Java application that will check all your devices.

/Brian

Tim Foster wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:44 -0700, Christian Flaig wrote:
>   
>> I'm checking if the NIC mentioned in subject is support by OpenSolaris. The 
>> CPU is an Intel 82574.
>> I can't find anything on the net, so has anyone experience with this adapter?
>>     
>
> No experience, but I bet it will work. 
>
> Why?  Well, I searched around a bit, and found that the device ID of the
> 82574L is 0x10D3[2], which appears in /etc/driver_aliases thus:
>
> timf at igyo[113] grep pci8086,10d3 /etc/driver_aliases 
> e1000g "pci8086,10d3"
>
> Having found the device ID, further searching on the HCL found me this
> system, which has that device id as well:
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/30571.html
>
> Give it a go, what's the worst that could happen?
>
>       cheers,
>                       tim
>
>
> [1] http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/search.jsp
> [2] http://download.intel.com/design/network/specupdt/82574.pdf
>
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