ok maybe I ll just back up an present how i chronically settle this kind of issue. maybe there are better ways, but ssomewhere in the mix you ll find the answer.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/faq/indexNet.html has lots of FAQ s of various ages and level of complexity if youa re interested 1. Is there a link light (often green and flashing if there is traffic) at both the ethernet card in your comp and at the switch/router/modem that your comp directly connects to. -establishs the presence of functional Physical layer ie. working Enet ports and wire. 2. gotta be su for most of this stuff: bash-3.2$ ifconfig -a bash: ifconfig: command not found bash-3.2$ su Password: 3. do I have a working driver? ( breaking up the ifconfig output with comments here.) ============ # ifconfig -a =============Kernel has install networking modules for IPv4 lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ============= =============I have an interface that is -- tcge0 Yay! =============I have an IP address (inet 192.168.0.2) and mask (netmask 255.255.255.0 = ffffff00), Yay! tcge0: flags=201000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 192.168.0.2 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 0:c:6e:60:7e:75 =============Kernel has installed networking modules for IPv6 lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252 index 1 inet6 ::1/128 ============== 4. so to recap Do I have Physical and Link layers (good wire and ports) Do I have Network and Transport layers (kernel modules, ports drivers, TCP/IP numbers) Fianlly, do I have a good software layer (does ping to a numerical address work, does ping to a named address work) Hope this will be helpful in getting you started, you can use the log files, the command prtconf -D to look for your driver name, the command prtdiag to look for your ethernet card/mb chip. SGK This message posted from opensolaris.org
