Ok. I got this ethernet card working with a combination of patience, links and workarounds. Here is my learned lesson:
The card is not recognized by SXDE because of the old driver installed SK98sol, so it won't even look at it at first install. It is officially explained here at sun: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/vendor/faq_sk_9s21_10_100_1000base_t_server_adapter_rj_45_copper.html So make sure that before you install the new driver, you pkgrm SK98sol. Otherwise the new SKEsol package won't install. I believe there is a bug in the installer of this package because after installing it (pkgadd -d SKGEsol ) it would not add the driver to the /etc/driver_alias. The problem, explained here: http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp/entry/how_do_i_find_out is that the post install script does "update_drv -a -i skge" and forgets to add the vendor id number. In my vaio, that number is 4351 (from /usr/X11/bin/scanpci and also prtpicl ) So instead, you have to manually do: update_drv -a -i ' "pciex11ab,4351" ' skge But that is not the happy ending. I had sent an inquiry to the syskonnect people about my problem. They answered fairly quickly indicating that the driver is to support their only the Syskonnect products. My card is apparently not Syskonnect (I thought Marvell Yukon and syskonnect were the same, nope.) So the driver "works" with the following caveat. I have the card not to be activated a boot time. Inetmenu won't do a thing to configure it unless I do what Casper suggested: ifconfig skge0 unplumb ifconfig skge0 plumb ifconfig skge0 dhcp start So, am half-way less frustrated and half-way happy about this. I just need to figure out how to get 1200x800 and/or how to get a external display (xorg.conf stuff that I have never understood). Links that I found helpful on this journey below. ************* http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/vendor/faq_sk_9s21_10_100_1000base_t_server_adapter_rj_45_copper.html http://lcrusan.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp/entry/how_do_i_find_out http://blogs.sun.com/ace/entry/solaris_x86_for_the_beginner6 http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi This message posted from opensolaris.org
