3com NIC can't be plumb, not recognized

I just added a nic which is working fine in different sun box to Ultra60 (solaris10). However I can't seem to plumb the nic and the box doesn't recognize the nic. I googled for an answer but no success so far. could any of you help me what's wrong here?

bash-3.00# ifconfig -a

lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL > mtu 8232 index 1

inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

hme0: flags=1004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2

inet 192.168.11.5 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.11.255

ether 8:0:xx:xx:xx:xx

bash-3.00# ifconfig hme1 plumb

ifconfig: SIOCSLIFNAME for ip: hme1: no such interface

bash-3.00# dmesg | grep hme1

Dec 10 15:35:21 unknown ip: [ID 600654 kern.error] hme1: DL_ATTACH_REQ failed: DL_BADPPA

Dec 10 15:35:21 unknown ip: [ID 701594 kern.error] hme1: DL_BIND_REQ failed: DL_OUTSTATE

Dec 10 15:35:21 unknown ip: [ID 639867 kern.error] hme1: DL_PHYS_ADDR_REQ failed: DL_OUTSTATE

Dec 10 15:35:21 unknown ip: [ID 144988 kern.error] hme1: DL_NOTIFY_ACK failed: DL_BADPRIM

[1359 byte] By [in2u29] at [2007-11-25 22:43:05]
# 1

Please describe this other Solaris system that successfully used the 3com NIC.

Which adapter card is it, and where did it come from?

(Sun doesn't sell that brand adapter, by the way.)

Historically, Sun SPARC systems only work with certain specific network adapters, and 3COM "ain't" among them, particularly on newer OS distributions.

(Solaris 2.6 and older? maybe.Solaris 7 and newer? probably not.)

Glance through the Ultra-60 link in the SSH for hardware that has been qualified by Sun:

<a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U60/components.html#Ethernet " target="_blank"> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U60/components. html#Ethernet</a>

rukbat at 2007-7-5 16:54:58 > top of Java-index,General,Network Configurations...
# 2
I'm not sure a 3Com card would be an hme interface. Look for something like iprb or elxl.
Blue_Atom at 2007-7-5 16:54:58 > top of Java-index,General,Network Configurations...