It's not the cable modem is the issue, you need to submit a RFE to include support for sfe "pci1039,900" for your Ethernet driver "pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x04 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0900 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet" for support.
What you can do, is try + lofiadm -a /zfs1/image/sol-nv-b104-x86-dvd.iso + mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /zfs1/install/dvd cd /zfs1/install/dvd/Solaris_11/Product # pkgadd -d . SUNWsfe Processing package instance <SUNWsfe> from </zfs1/install/dvd/Solaris_11/Product> SiS900 Ethernet Driver(i386) 11.11,REV=2008.11.26.22.34 /* * Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Masayuki Murayama. All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, * this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, * this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation * and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * * 3. Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors may be * used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without * specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS * "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, * INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, * BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS * OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED * AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, * OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT * OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH * DAMAGE. */ Using </> as the package base directory. ## Processing package information. ## Processing system information. 3 package pathnames are already properly installed. ## Verifying package dependencies. ## Verifying disk space requirements. ## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed. ## Checking for setuid/setgid programs. This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user permission during the process of installing this package. Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWsfe> [y,n,?] y Installing SiS900 Ethernet Driver as <SUNWsfe> ## Installing part 1 of 1. 367 blocks ## Executing postinstall script. Reboot client to install driver. Installation of <SUNWsfe> was successful. # # Rem you will see these two vender id and and three device id got added. # grep sfe /etc/driver_aliases /etc/driver_aliases:sfe "pci1039,900" /etc/driver_aliases:sfe "pci100b,20" /etc/driver_aliases:sfe "pci1039,7016" Then try a sys-unconfig and select dhcp vs static for the sfe interface , for name service select none, dhcp should vill in the /etc/resolve.conf for your automatically both the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf, if not you can use your ISP's nameserver ip_address_calue and create a one line entry in /etc/resolv.conf and then update your add a dns value in /etc/nsswitch.conf on the line that contains this "hosts: files dns" entry. if these do not exist when you log back in and su - root. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
