Yeah, I have read it too. There are 3 PCI slots and I can assign IRQs to them.
However, I'm going to puzzle you. I was not completely sure that I correctly
concluded that the problem is related to my video card. I seen that it uses IRQ
10 in the NVIDIA control panel. When the system boots, it shows the table with
IRQs of different controllers and Display and Network controllers are linked to
IRQ 10 also. Yet I could not understand why under Windows these devices share
IRQ16. I assumed that under Solaris I see hexadecimal IRQ number, and hex 10
corresponds to dec 16. I found your advice to execute dmesg command in the
thread started by majorero and did it. To my surprise, the output informed me
that several drivers share IRQ16 (!) with different interrupt levels. I
recalled that you suspected that the sound card can be the culprit. Hence I
dared to perform one more clear experiment. I installed Solaris Express from
scratch and boot in console mode. There were no error about configuring IPv4
interface, but my router didn't reply to a ping. I turned off the computer and
switched the power for a while (to reset any info cached in the network card).
When I booted Solaris, I could ping the router - so you were right that simple
rebooting from Windows to Solaris doesn't allow to work with LAN. The next step
was installing the NVIDIA driver for the video card. I rebooted the system and
loaded GNOME: I was able to surf the Web with Firefox! Cool, and I started to
think that it is the sound card what kills my network card. I went further to
confirm this and installed the Open Sound package and rebooted. Well, I still
can access the Internet, display is working and I can play music ... Now I'm
totally lost. I read that majorero gets inconsistent behavior of his network
card and sound card, so I expect that some of the components can suddenly stop
working on my machine too. I already got an error from an audio player about a
problem in the data flow stream and the quality of the sound is very poor. So I
guess that I would rather purchase a PCI sound card in order to reveal a part
of IRQ16 and get good sound. I would accept this as a norm if Windows would not
handle this situation better. I hope that Solaris will be improved in this
regard as I like it more than Windows and will try to work under Solaris anyway.
Thank you very much, Lars. I would leave the Solaris community without your
timely support. I really appreciate your help.
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