Thanks Tunla for your help in all this. My issue was related, and your notes helped a great deal. In case this helps someone else,
MoBo is a GigaByte GA-X38T DQ6 DUAL RealTek 8168 gigabit interfaces Initial install (Solaris 10 5/08) incorrectly detects and sets these up as '8169's in the /etc/driver_aliases file! With this corrected (manual edit), and a sys_unconfig command issued, the driver loads and we begin to get the Network Setup survey on system startup. But, even though the plumb -a command shows both interfaces up with appropriate settings, we cannot ping to anything else on the net. Hmmm..... In addition, I cannot get DNS set up: the Network Setup reports an error: config_nsswitch error -4, errno 2 No such file or directory. Many thanks. Lou This message posted from opensolaris.org
