Installing Intel Network Card

Hi all,
How do I install an Intel Network card into a solaris 9 x86 platform?
Thank

First of all, I do not see the nic when I run the command prtconf -v | grep pci8086That's possible, because you may have got an oem version of the intel hardware, and the vendor ID from
someone else (let's say Compaq / HP, or Toshiba, or ... -- and not Intel) appears in the device's name.
Have a look at the "prtconf -pv" output, search for devices with a "class-code" of "00020000" (= PCI Ethernet
controller). The vendor-id/device-id pair of that entry should identify it as an intel gigabit nic. At this time,
Solaris 10 x86 (b63) supports lots of variants of the intel gbit hardware:
# grep e1000g /etc/driver_aliases
e1000g "pci8086,1000"
e1000g "pci8086,1001"
e1000g "pci8086,1004"
e1000g "pci8086,1008"
e1000g "pci8086,1009"
e1000g "pci8086,100d"
e1000g "pci8086,100e"
e1000g "pci8086,100f"
e1000g "pci8086,1010"
e1000g "pci8086,1011"
e1000g "pci8086,1012"
e1000g "pci8086,1013"
e1000g "pci8086,1014"
e1000g "pci8086,1015"
e1000g "pci8086,1016"
e1000g "pci8086,1017"
e1000g "pci8086,1018"
e1000g "pci8086,1019"
e1000g "pci8086,101a"
e1000g "pci8086,101d"
e1000g "pci8086,101e"
e1000g "pci8086,1026"
e1000g "pci8086,1027"
e1000g "pci8086,1028"
e1000g "pci8086,1075"
e1000g "pci8086,1076"
e1000g "pci8086,1077"
e1000g "pci8086,1079"
e1000g "pci8086,107a"
e1000g "pci8086,107b"The eeprom checksum failure does not look too good. I'm not sure if this is a problem which prevents the
use of the hardware with the solaris network driver.

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Hi, Gary:
What I meant by my statement regarding you having the better of the available cards for your notebook is that, yes, I am sure the Intel 5300 is an improvement over the 5100, but the problem is you can't install the 5300 in your notebook.
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