I installed Solaris 10 06/06. While installation I didnot configure the network. Now I want to connect the system to the network. Can anybody suggest how to configure the network. The nic is not getting detected. How to know whether the required driver for detection of nic is present. Can someone guide me on this or point to some link.
thanks & regads,
rathi
Try this - as it works pretty often when you don't know what the network driver is:
# ifconfig -a plumb
Then check
# ifconfig -a
Failing that - try the /usr/X11/bin/scanpci - this will identify most PCI devices.
If you see your nic, then create:
1. /etc/hosts entries
2. /etc/hostname.<nic>
3. /etc/defaultrouter entry
4. /etc/netmask entry
Then, without rebooting:
# ifconfig <nic> inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 up
Then add your default route:
# route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Then try pinging etc.
Then reboot to make sure settings above are persistent.
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root@rci.rogers.com
One of the main features of these forums is to teach. Would you run sys-unconfig on a production multi-homed system? Do you also know that it removes the root password as well as NFS entries in vfstab? This command is at best one to avoid for anyone who supports a production environment or plans to. See the man page - you will find it does more that you might expect. Not documented, it also regenerates new system ssh RSA/DSA pub/pri keys, not a good idea in a monitored secure environment ... say a financial institution?
Oh and take a look at these ones:
http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106142&tstart=45
http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=74634&messageID=272036
I'm not flaming you but trying to pass on what my own experience has taught me.
Donald
Thanks everybody for the information provided. I used the details given at http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/6.html to solve my problem. I am very new to solaris so after the my nic was detected I used sys-unconfig for configuring networking. I am in the process of trying whatever I can to try to learn things properly.
Please keep responding to my posts.
thanks & regards,
rathi
On several different machines (all sun built boxes e450, Ultra20m2, Blade1000) I have always had no luck manually configuring my network settings. I poke at it for 10-20 minutes and then just end up saying 'screw it' and doing a sys-unconfig (which means 10 more minutes of reconfiguration). Not to mention all of the .ssh/known_hosts editing. I have followed the steps you listed Donald, is there anything else I might have been forgetting? The symptom will be like Solaris is completely ignoring my DNS settings, although defaultrouter is set correctly.
Dan
