Solaris

Hello,
1st of all, thank you for your answers.

I tried prtconf but it shows nothing that looks like a network interface. I did install vmware tools and the installation went ok. But I still dont have any network interface.


I have to use Solaris 9 cos I have to have the same environment as my real hardware for testing.

On the vmware side, I attached one host to host net iface which seems to be connected properly and I dont know what else I can change.

The .vmx file contains this section

Code:

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "hostonly"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

Some people also say that I have to edit the .vmx file and add

Code:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

I did it but then my VM fails to start saying
Tex

On real soralis I use

# grep -i net /etc/path_to_inst

It will show all network interface that you can "plumb <interface_name>"

But on Vmware I'm not sure it's works or not?


aRm_nAja

this doesn't work for ALL interfaces! if you are on solaris 10, "dladm show-dev" is the best command (afaik) to use.

for example on my sparc 280r machine:

Code:

root@miraculix # grep -i net /etc/path_to_inst
"/pci@8,700000/network@5,1" 0 "eri"
root@miraculix # dladm show-dev
eri0            link: unknown   speed: 100   Mbps       duplex: full
qfe0            link: unknown   speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: unknown
qfe1            link: unknown   speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: unknown
qfe2            link: unknown   speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: unknown
qfe3            link: unknown   speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: unknown

the qfe interfaces are missing in the first command.

Oh Tex need help on solaris9.

yes, but he has no interface in his vmware environment. and also the "kstat -c net" shows only the loopback interface. so the problem ist not to find the interface. the problem is, there is NO interface