Networking with solaris 7 on x86

Hi all
i installed Solaris 7 on 2 intel pcs. At the time of installing solaris 7, i was only asked to provide the host name, it didn't ask for the IP address. So after installation I saw a line in /etc/hosts file which is different from Sparc machines. Here is how it looked:
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost neptune
where neptune the local machine name, where i installed the os. Now i edited the /etc/hosts file following way
127.0.0.1 localhost
175.145.135.10 neptune loghost
after saving it, i tried to ping it:
ping neptune or ping 175.145.135.10
i get error message saying "ICMP error, host/gateway unreachable"
Does anyone have idea how to do networking in x86 running on Solaris 7???
thanks
Pranoz

Hi Allen
thanks for your help. I did that, but still it did not ask me for ip address or any network info. Then i tried to manually update /etc/hosts file with following lines it:
127.0.0.1 localhost
175.165.155.10 neptune loghost
After that i rebooted the machine and tried to
1. ping 127.0.0.1
2. ping neptune
3. ping 175.165.155.10
#1 returns "127.0.0.1' is alive. But #2 and #3 return following message:
ICMP Net unreachable from gateway localhost (127.0.0.1) for ICMP from localhost(127.0.0.1) to neptune(175.165.55.10)"
Does anyone has any experience/idea about how to configure network with solaris 7 on Intel platform??
Your help is grealty appreciated
thanks
Pran

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