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I recently picked up a Sparc Station 20, and installed a fresh copy of Solaris 8 on it.

I've been attempting to set it up so it recognizes/is recognized by the rest of my network so I can setup a PPPoE connection.

According to ifconfig -a, I've got an IP address. According to dmesg | grep le0, the interface reports "No carrier - cable disconnected or hub link disabled?"

Since I'm a Solaris newbie, I don't know where go from here. I've tried other answers posted to this forum with no result.

That error message means what it says. The ethernet card cannot see any device on the other end of the cable. The cable might be bad or not connected. The thing that the cable plugs into could be dead. The le card itself may be bad.

Bear in mind that a le card is 10MB half-duplex only. Could your hub be set at 100MB?

I've got a 10baseT hub, so that's not likely to be the problem, although I've got an old switch I can test if I want.

I was re-examining the dmesg output, and there are two errors for each le port, one as I gave it, and the other indicating a transceiver problem.

When the machine is up the hub indicates activity on that cable, and the sys-unconfig seems to detect the cable properly, as the time I had two dead cables in (oops) it wouldn't configure the NIS at all.

I know the cable I've got in there is good, as I swapped it from my current system. I haven't tried le1 yet on the Sparc yet.