Hi, I had Solaris Express 01/08 installed a few days ago and it was working well. I used the Solaris Express text based installer because my video card driver is not supported by the install DVD. The first few questions I remember being asked were if this computer is on a network or not, DHCP or static IP, lookup service type (I chose DNS), DNS server addresses, etc. I'm going to go into a bit of detail in a minute, but the main issue is that every time I run the same installer again from the same DVD, it no longer asks me for this information and installs Solaris without support for my network card.
After my first install, networking worked fine until I rebooted and chose xVM Hipervisor from GRUB. It seems to have done some kind of damage because the network card was no longer listed in ifconfig -a when it booted Solaris. I rebooted to Solaris Express from GRUB (not through xVM) and same thing, no network. I installed Indiana Preview 2 RC and no network. Some had me try running commands to check if nwam was running, and restarting it. This did nothing. Now I run the same Solaris Express text installer and it doesn't ask me any networking related questions except for a host name. Is there logic in the installer that skips those questions if it does not detect a network card? Is it possible that the network card in my computer is now dead? How is that possible? I booted the diagnostics CD that came with this Sun Ultra 24 and tried to do some diagnostics on my network card. It told me that the network card is either not supported or could not be detected! I think xVM has really screwed this up. Thanks, Ryan
