Hello all,

Let me preface this note by expressing my thanks to anyone that can help.

I have cable modem access to the internet and a D-Link router (which is also running DHCP) for multiple machine access. I have 3 windows machines running XP Pro and '98 working OK and able to access internet web sites.

I am taking a UNIX class and have installed Solaris9 on one of the 3 machines (on seperate hard drive). I have searched all over this UNIX forum trying to figure out how to setup Solaris 9 so it can access the Internet and have yet to find a thread that has worked. Trying to put in the domain name during installation was impossible. Nothing worked so I just skipped it so I could setup Internet access after installation.

I have tried following instructions from some of the threads which included configuring interfaces and creating files (notrouter, defaultrouter, dhcp.lo0, hostname.lo0 - just to name a few.)

Currently, I get the following message on the white screen (just before the login screen) when booting to Solaris9 -

configuring IPv4 interfaces: lo0.
starting DHCP on primary interface lo0
ifconfig: lo0: interface does not exist or cannot be managed using DHCP

Can anyone tell me what I might have done wrong?

lo0 is the loopback device

Thanks for the post.

What should I use instead of lo0? And how do I go about doing it?

you have to look whether solaris has reconized an other interface....

example:

root@solaris # cat /etc/path_to_inst | grep -i net
"/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network1@1" 0 "hme"
root@solaris # ifconfig hme0 plumb
root@solaris # ifconfig hme0 10.10.10.1/24 up




greetings Preßy