Solaris

Hello! I'm having trouble getting this to work so I ask kindly if I can get some help to get it to work, please .


I installed Solaris 10 (nov 06) on a laptop and I been trying to get it to connect to the router (wired connection) and it doesn't work.

I have a 2wire 2700HG router that has 4 ethernet ports on the back so I simply grabbed an Ethernet cable and plugged it in.

Router address is 192.168.1.254

I go ahead and edit /etc/hosts to :

127.0.0.1 localhost loghost Warturtle
192.168.1.83 Warturtle

I then create /etc/resolv.conf (It wasn't there so I made it) and add this line:

nameserver 192.168.1.254

I also go into /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/nsswitch.dns and set hosts and ipnodes to files dns

I can't ping the router at all and the ethernet cable has orange and yellow colors in the laptop ethernet connector.


Here's some output I thought would be helpfull:


# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
# netstat -rn

Routing Table: IPv4
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
224.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 U 1 0 lo0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 8 195 lo0
# cat /etc/inet/hosts
#
# Internet host table
#
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost Warturtle
192.168.1.83 Warturtle
#

ifconfig -a is not listing any ethernet card. lo0 is just a loopback adapter.

Does "dmesg" tell you anything about a card being recognized?

What type of laptop and ethernet? Is it PCMCIA or onboard?

It's a Dell inspiron 8600. Card is an integrated Broadcom.

Thanks!!! I got it to work.

After what I read in your post I went to google to search for drivers and found this:

Free NIC drivers for Solaris

Installed it and now it works great!!!!

Try the driver here, search for "broadcom".

Free NIC drivers for Solaris

Yes!!! It works now!!!! Thank you so much.

I had no idea what was going on!