It sounds like you are moving in the right direction.

In general, any Broadcom, Nvidia, Intel or 3Com NIC will work.  There
are of course exceptions.


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Sergey <s_moksin at rambler.ru> wrote:
> Hmm... I don't understand how to help me your advision.
>>if you are using dhcp, try 'ifconfig [devicename] plumb'
>>then 'ifconfig [devicename] auto-dhcp
> Indifferent, use or not dhcp, i try to config NIC as described on README on 
> driver pack. Of course the command
> ifconfig [devicename] plumb
> attend in README (as variant the useful ifconfig -a plumb, it plumb all of 
> the drivers attached to physical devices). Then I try to attach included on 
> Solaris rge driver via
> # devfsadm -i rge
> I have error - rge driver couldn't be attached. If I install gani driver, it 
> attach properly, then plumbing properly, but after try to assign IP addres it 
> not work. IP address assign successfully, but pockets not recieve to NIC 
> (also i think the pockets not transmitted). The command
> ifconfig [devicename] (or -a option) show normal inet address (equal with 
> assigned IP), netmask, broadcast and etc, but show ether (aka MAC/hardware 
> addess) as 6 zeroes 00-00-00-00-00-00 - it is ubnormal. It show that gani 
> driver not operate with NIC chipset and not work properly (manually assigning 
> ether address to right valie not help). I try to contact woth driver 
> developer, Mr Masayuki Murayama, but haven't answer at long time, only today 
> I check e-mail end recieve letter with updated version of gani driver. I try 
> to test it at next evening.
>>consult 'man ifconfig' early and often :)
> Usualy I do it before ask communities:-), also try RTFW (by Google)
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