to sum up my last actions, resulting in my successfully having network connectivity !!, i gave in and bought a D-Link Gigabit Network card. I followed the excellent directions from http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/component/details/2729.html downloaded the drivers, post edited the driver_aliases, reconfigure, reboot.
Now I can telnet to my other Unix machines. Thanks for the help. This message posted from opensolaris.org
