3com 3c90x fast ethernet 10/100 card and solaris 8 (x86)

I am completely new to solaris, I am trying to install solaris 8 for x86 in a computer with a 3com 3c90x fast ethernet 10/100 card and looks like the o.s. does not recognize it at first. Reading the 02/02 hardware compatibility list I found out that this device needs to be configured after the instalation (with the device configuration floppy). The point is... I have no clue on how to do this. Can someone help me with that or point me in the right direction? The machine is ment to be a back-up file server.
Since now, thanks for the attention.
lucdepaula

Maybe the 3Com card works by adding it's PCI-ID to /etc/driver_aliases:
http://sun.drydog.com/faq/s86faq.html#6.7
Maybe you also need the (unoffical) elxl driver update for some of the
newer 3Com 3c905 variants:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/files/elxl.tar

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