Configuring Broadband Modem-Solaris 8 x86

Question

Greetings!
I have installed Solaris 8 on my Intel box. During initial install, my network card was not found, and I cannot connect to the internet. I have looked for documentation on how to get the connection established, but haven't had any luck. My understanding is that I will need to configure the network card to work correctly, but again, no luck in finding documentation on this.
This is my first time working with Solaris, and I have had the box itself running fine with Windows 98 and NT (I keep the box set up the way it is, I am just swapping out hard drives to change OS).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I apologize in advance for sounding like a newbie, but when it comes to Solaris, I have to admit that I am.
Thanks in advance!!
--Jim

Answer 1

I found the following steps most helpful for setting up the nic.
Re: Network connection problem
Author: softpac May 2, 2002 5:13 PM (reply 1 of 2)
Open a Terminal Window and type the following command:
prtconf -D
This will show you a list of devices recognized by your system.
Asuming that you have a PCI Ethernet card there should be a section for your PCI adapters similar to this one:
pci, instance #0 (driver name: pci)
Whithin this section you should be able to see your ethernet adapter. It should be an entry similar to this one:
pci10b7,1000, instance #0 (driver name: elxl)
This means your ethernet adapter is: elxl0 the # 0 is for the instance since you can have more than one adapter
create the two files you will need for dhcp to work:
do NOT replace the word hostname with your actual hostname
cd /etc
touch hostname.elxl0
touch dhcp.elxl0
reboot your system and dhcp should take care of the rest! :)
Once you reboot you should be able to see your adapter and info using this command:
ifconfig -a
If you still need help feel free to send me an email at: [email protected]
Please let me know if I was able to help!
Ricardo.