Solaris 9 x86 doesn't recognize my lan card and can't get the drivers

Question

Hi guys! I have a problem with my solaris os.. It doesn't recognize my realtek 8029 lan card and this means that i can't download the drivers from the internet.. Anyway i got the drivers using my other installed OS ( slackware linux 9 ) from the www but there's a problem it seems that i cant mount the harddrive where the driverz are..neither linux->mount solaris hd disk nor solaris->mount linux hd disk do the trick..(+ i don't have a floppy drive ) Any ideaz how to transfer the drivers from the hd disk where the linux is installed to the solaris disk..?

Answer 1

I have the same NIC (RTL 8029 chip), and.. the solution 4 you. :) I made this quick guide for me, so I can add netwotk support to my system, very easily. Happy to see that another person needs that info.
Follow these steps:
1. Download the file from the link below, put it at /, and unzip it.
ftp://sun.drydog.com/pub/solaris/nei-i86pc-solaris5.7.zip
2. Run (from command line) the command:
add_drv /kernel/drv/nei; devlinks
3. Create the file /kernel/drv/nei.conf and write
name="nei" parent="isa" reg=1,0xe800,0x1f interrupts=5;
(this is the hardware address for my card, you should find your's).
4. Create the file /etc/hostname.nei0, whick will contain the line
192.168.0.1
(this is the IP addr. I use for my internal network, change that to any other reserved addr. you like, like 10.0.0.1)
5. If you use IPv6, create /etc/hostname6.nei0 ,too, with the same contents as hostname.nei0
192.168.0.1
6. Edit /etc/hosts and add the line:
192.168.0.1 myname.mydomain
7. Edit /etc/inet/hosts and make the file look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1 myname.mydomain loghost
8. Edit /etc/inet/netmasks and put:
192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
9. Run from command line mode or from a terminal:
/usr/sbin/drvconfig -i nei
10. Run from command line mode or from a terminal:
touch /reconfigure; /usr/sbin/reboot
11. After rebooting, type "ifconfig nei0 plumb" to make sure the device was recognized.
It should show up in the output from typing "prtconf"
Normally, now you can use your RTL8029 card.
I hope I help a little bit mate. :)