Help with Solaris 10 and 3COM 3C556 Builtin MiniPCI

Hello All,
I have just installed S10. But my 3COM 3C556 Mini PCI NIC, is not
working with it. I don't understand why the elxl driver is not
working with since it is suppose to be compatible with the 3C9xx...
Any one had the same issue?
Here is what I have done so far.
I have included in the /etc/driver_aliases a line with
elxl "pci10b7,6055"
Also added in /boot/solaris/devicedb/master a line with
pci10b7,6055 pci10b7,6055 net pci elxl.bef "3COM 3C556 MiniPCI"
then I config the network wih hostname.elxl
netmask, defauftroute, resolv.conf etc...
I do a devfsadm -i elxl
touch /reconfigure
I reboot.
Whe I do an ifconfig -a I can then see the card up with the corect
IP, but it has a MAC address that is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, I can not
ping outside, and the led of the NIC card does not come up. It looks
like it's not even up.... But I know its works okay since I used to
have debian on the machine...
Thanks for your help
Cheers,
HK

Brilliant workaround.
most of these posts are before Sol 10 was officially launched, but I just wanted to give some feedback to date.
I'm trying to get solaris 10 working on a Dell Latitude C810. (where I work our notebooks are faster then our desktops/servers!)
Anyhow found similar problem where no NIC was found.
Using the manual steps below, and by changing the bios to boot the NIC first, I was able to 'fake' solaris into at least getting it to a state where i could "massage" it
bootup it still doesn't like things, due to being unable to configure the ipv4 device elxl0 but, i just made a little script file to change it to what it should be..
ifconfig elxl0 down
ifconfig elxl0 <ip address you want>
ifconfig elxl0 netmask <netmask>
ifconfig elxl0 broadcast <bcast addy>
ifconfig ether <mac-addy>
ifconfig elxl0 up
ifconfig -a
this get's the device as close to workable state.
Just a further note, I tried installing this on a couple "express builds" 07/05 and 08/05, both, upon a fresh install, just after grub loads, it immediately core-dumps and reboots the machine.
Once i reverted back to the 'official' 03/05 release version, it installed fine, I really would prefer to experiment with grub, and to take advantage of the newest bug-fixed express builds, but, c'est la vie...
Thanks again for posting this workaround!
Dave

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