Hi

I want to install Solaris 9 on a disk that may be installed in a number of V240 SPARC workstations. Each of the computers is the same except that they may contain one of two NICs in them (the two NICs are both PCI cards). I would like to configure the machines so that Solaris can work out which NIC is installed and plumb the correct ethernet devices. I am thinking I need to have the drivers for each NIC installed on the hard disk and then somehow sense the NIC that is present and plumb the right device. The NICs will have different PCI vendor IDs so maybe I can use this information. Does anyone know how this could be done?

Thanks,
Mike.

ifconfig -a plumb will plumb all of yours interfaces.

Ok, thanks. So does it matter if I configure an Ethernet device using ifconfig if the device is not present, because in my problem, I will not have all Ethernet ports present - I don't want things to crash if I configure a device

If you are just talking about plumbing a non-existant interface; it'll error, but not fatally. I'd imagine you should be able to just create /etc/hostname.<nic> entries for both possible ones and you'll get whatever one works automagically.

Ok, that sounds very straightforward. Thanks for your help.