Hi Antony,
The Device Driver Utility should give you a nice overview of what's
available on the system. You can find it under Applications > System Tools.
In the case of VirtualBox, you should have 0 driver problems. In my case
the Network Device shows as an "Intel Corportation 82540EM Gigabit
Ethernet Controller". You can right-click any entry to see additional
details. What do you see as your Network Device and Driver?
You should be able to plumb the device:
pfexec ifconfig <device> plumb
for example:
pfexec ifconfig e1000g0 plumb
And then bring it up. If using DHCP:
pfexec ifconfig <device> dhcp start
If using static
pfexec ifconfig <device> <ip address>
pfexec ifconfig up
Hope that helps,
Brian
antony castle wrote:
> Can anyone point me towards a good guide on how to install devices in Solaris
> - I'm really struggling to find anything. All the resources I've found seem
> to be aimed at system admins in enterprises. I just need a good basic
> overview of how to see what hardware is in the system, how to install drivers
> etc.
>
> I'm running Solaris in virtualbox with a virtual intel NIC but it didn't
> install the network as part of the OS install. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated - I really want to get to grips with Solaris but at the moment I
> just want to throw the box out the window!!
>
> Thankks in advance
>
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Technology Evangelist
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