This was originally posted on 2007-01-05 to http://andrewho.co.uk/weblog/an-unsupported-nic
According to the HCL, my network card (an Intel EtherExpress 10/100) isn't natively supported by Solaris, and this can easily be confirmed with the handy Installation Check Tool. However, after a bit of research, I'm fairly certain that it does in fact work with the iprb driver. So, let's let Solaris know this.
Searching the ouput of prtconf -pv for 00020000 (the class-code for
ethernet controllers) gives us enough information for the device.
subsystem-vendor-id: 00008086
subsystem-id: 0000302f
The following line therefore needs to be put into /etc/driver_aliases and the
system rebooted.
iprb "pci 8086,302f"
Standard ethernet configuration can now take place. Put the system's name into
/etc/nodename.
# echo sunserver > /etc/nodename
The file /etc/hostname.iprb0 needs to know the hostname of the interface.
# echo sunserver > /etc/hostname.iprb0
The netmasks need to be added to /etc/netmasks.
# grep '^[0-9]' /etc/netmasks
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
Tell /etc/hosts and /etc/inet/ipnodes what the IP address is.
# grep '^[0-9]' /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost
192.168.1.123 sunserver
# grep '^[0-9:]' /etc/inet/ipnodes
::1 localhost loghost
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost
192.168.1.123 sunserver
Enter nameserver information into /etc/resolv.conf.
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.2
nameserver 192.168.1.3
Put the gateway's IP into /etc/defaultrouter.
# echo 192.168.1.1 > /etc/defaultrouter
The system needs to know to use DNS to resolve hostnames.
# grep '^hosts' /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns
Finally, restart the interface and we should be good to go.
# svcadm restart svc:/network/physical