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# 1  
Old 10-16-2007
Solaris I386 ifconfig devices ??

I want to configure my Network card. On solaris 9 i386.
How to know the good Network device. I use prtconf
to display the device list. I'm searching the device name.
Like ifconfig device_name plumb

thanks you
# 2  
Old 10-16-2007
Code:
dmesg | grep -i "link up"

most likely you will see :
Quote:
Aug 20 10:46:25 host-name bge: [ID 801593 kern.notice] NOTICE: bge0: link up 1000Mbps Full-Duplex
where bge0 is the name of the interface.
# 3  
Old 11-06-2007
best command

This command work very fine.

prtconf -PDv | grep -i 'network'
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