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I installed Solaris 10 on my PC without much trouble. But I couldn't get the internet to work if my life depended on it. I have an external DSL router running through an 8 Port switch. Now I can't ping anything, not even the router. The /usr/X11/bin/scanpci command showed me the ethernet card, so I suppose there are no driver problems. The lights on the card and the switch are on. I suppose I have to alter some text files to do it, but all the walkthroughs I found on the net didn't help.. Maybe I'm doing something wrong all the time
Can anyone help me please? All tips are appreciated a lot.
Thanks
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
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The PCI Bus and the name of the Card (Via Technologies whatever...)
I know what scanpci shows, I'm asking for what it shows precisely for your card.
"Via technology whatever" is a bit vague to provide help.
The important information is a couple of hex numbers (manufacturer code/device code).
It says: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III]
To be honest, I think I'll leave the whole thing for now because I spent hours (literally) trying to solve this very problem.. Now I'm back on Linux again for the moment. Will try to solve it in a couple of days when I have the energy to do so.. Thanks a lot for your help
Oh thanks a lot! But will I really need that? I mean Solaris was able to detect that particular model, it's reported on the Solaris HCL and the little lights on the card were lit up.. Ah well I'll give it a try.
But now I'm faced with another issue: Now that I've reinstalled Linux again after Solaris, I'll have to figure out a way to configure grub to boot Solaris, because now I can't anymore..
Once I get that done, I'll try again. Thanks a bunch for your help!
that driver should works nicely , i had tested on a via rhine , its a good driver ...
if you still cant get it to work on your rhine card , you can get a standard intel eth card , no need a third party driver , solaris itself should be able to configure it for you ...
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
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But now I'm faced with another issue: Now that I've reinstalled Linux again after Solaris, I'll have to figure out a way to configure grub to boot Solaris, because now I can't anymore..
grub cannot boot Solaris 10, but it can chainload Solaris own boot loader.
Solaris express use grub to boot itself when on x86/x64 architecture.
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