Setting up Network & Internet via Router on Solaris 10 (x86)
The problem that I have seems to be a very common one. As a regular windows user I have never had any reason to use any other Operating Systems, however, studying oracle on Sun Systems through university has meant that unless I get my own Solaris machine set up I will be unable to work on my assignments form home.
This being said when it comes to anything other than windows I am a little stuck. The interface of Solarix 10 is relatively straight forward and I have managed to set the majority of the system up, however, one area that seems to baffle me is the network side of things.
I have spent the past few hours looking over this forum and bashing google but I have had no luck. From what I can tell Solaris is not picking up my Network Interface Card (MSI KT4AV) built-in.
I connect to the internet via a D-Link DSL 604GT. The network consists of 3 wired connections and about 5 wireless laptops/pc's and such.
Having said that I have searched for drivers for my card with no luck. Is there anyway to confirm that my network card isnt being detected or is this not the case.
If you want more information about my problem then please let me know.
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MattLowden] at [2007-11-26 10:32:17]
# 3
You could use this
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html
If solaris can see your network card it will be reported, and it will tell you if solaris has a driver for it, or if a known third party driver is available.
I used this to find a third party driver for one of the built in nics for my asus a7n8x-delux mobo.
If it does not see a nic, look at the HCL
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/
and buy a pci nic that is listed as supported. I beleive many of the broadcom cards are.
# 4
BTW I also dug up this info about the VIA VT6103 LAN controller that according to the MSI site your mobo uses.
according to this thread
http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=6&threadid=66105&ente rthread=y
You can go to the windows update site and it will scan and detect the controller and load the driver, not sure how that works but it is in the thread. Also if you are fealing up to it according to the thread you could go to
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
and #3 is a driver reported by some to work for the VIA VT6103 LAN controller which is known as the Via Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter.
I myself am using #17 the nfo driver for my nvidia nforce2 built in nic. The afore mentioned Install check tool reported the nifty web site as the location of my third party driver. It works like a champ.
