David, > Long story short: > > Installed opensolaris 2008.05 on my T105 (Dell.) > > Didn't have the Broadcom drivers, so I downloaded it and installed under > BCME0. So far so good. > > > I assumed after installing the driver that network would come online after a > reboot. > No such luck. > > My router should be giving the system an address through DHCP. > > However, > > ifconfig -a shows > > lo0 > 127.0.0.1 > > bcme > 0.0.0.0 >
Short story even shorter ;-) Try: ifconfig bcme0 down unplumb ifconfig bcme0 plumb up ifconfig bcme0 dhcp start And report what happens please. For Internet access through a bruiser, you may need to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf (the hosts entry) to read "files dns" also. Regards... Sean.
