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.


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