Hi Ian,

Do you know the driver any of your cards use?

I found a document at tipmaster.com, faq60-4083 that could be very helpfull. 
 Your 3c905 should work.  

http://www.tek-tips.com/faq.cfm?pid=60

And look for the faq above

Let me know

Guy



-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:13:32 +1200
Subject: Re: [osol-help] Installed x86 Solaris,   but all 3 network cards 
undetected :(

> MC wrote:
> 
> >I wanted to evaluate Solaris as a simple SMB file server because ZFS
> reads like the best thing since rising bread.  I installed the latest
> Express Community Edition.  However it hasn't detected any of the 3
> available NICs, and Google and the forum search are both coming up dry
> for newbie help.
> >
> >This is an Nforce2 board (A7N8X Deluxe) with two onboard NICs (3Com
> 3C90x 10/100 Family, and the Nvidia Nforce2 one) and a gigabit PCI
> D-Link DGE-530T.
> >
> >I could install a PCI Intel Pro/100+ and see if that is picked up
> automatically, but ideally the gigabit ethernet would work.  The one
> thing I came up with was
> http://www.dbforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1205662.html , but the
> scanpci command doesn't seem to run for me, and I have no idea what to
> do even if it did. :o)
> >
> >I looked for a central hardware management GUI like Windows Device
> Manager, but found no such thing, so I'm totally in the dark :)  Can
> someone help me out here -- is there a way to get the D-Link gigabit
> NIC working?  And if not, one of the other NICs?
> > 
> >  
> >
> Try running the device detection tool:
> 
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html
> 
> Ian
> 
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