> To add to the mystery,
>
> If I change the MAC it seems to work.
>
> At boot ifconfig nge0 reports: ether 8b:3d:7e:90:1e:0
>
> If I run:
>
> ifconfig nge0 ether 8c:3d:7e:90:1e:0
>
> then the network starts working, and I get all the
> expected traffic.
There is a bug in the nge driver: on certain versions
of the nvidia nic hardware the MAC address is read from
the eeprom in reversed byte order. I think this has been
filed as bug 6658667, "nge - ethernet address reversed
on nForce 430 chipset on ASUS M2N motherboard"
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6658667
Or 6678904, "nge driver (MCP61) gets MAC address backwards,
Network is unusable in snv_84."
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6678904
As a workaround, I'm using an /etc/hostname.nge0 like this:
% cat /etc/hostname.nge0
sarah ether 0:1d:60:b:18:1b
I think your machine needs something like
... ether 0:1e:90:7e:3d:8b
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