I recently installed Solaris 10 (sol-10-GA-x86, 01/26/05) from a DVD,
on a ECS k7vta3, KT333, Sempron 2200, 512MB i386 system,
onto its own 12GB primary partition. Twice so far.

Took me a week to get this far, and after 4 more evenings, I need help, please.
When I boot up, if I install the driver from an .itu diskette, my network WORKS.
If I don't install the driver I get the message:

svc:/network/physical:default:
method "/lib/svc/method/net-physical"
failed with exit status 96.
/network/physical: default misconfigured

The nic is a D-Link DFE 530TX+
Driver is rf, rf.itu, downloaded from the net. It is for Solaris 10.

The boot up hardware detection reads the nic as:

PCI: 1106,1300.1186.1301.10 - Ethernet controller
bus 0, device 9, function: 0
Port: D000-D0FF, IRQ 11, Memory EA000000-EA0000FF

When it is working, ls -al /devices/pci* lists:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 15 22:25 pci1186,1301@9
crw------- 1 root sys 242, 1 May 24 19:30 pci1186,1301@9:rf0

prtconf lists:
pci1186,1301, instance #0

/boot/solaris/devicedb/master contains the line:
pci1186,1300 pci1186,1300 net pci none "DLink 530TX+ / 538TX Ethernet" compatible="pci1186,1301"

/etc/driver_aliases contains the line:
rf "pci1186,1300"

I have edited all files to be 1300 then tried all files with 1301.
Same results.

I can find NO way to make this work other than reinstalling the driver
EVERY time I boot up.

Changing the card is not an option.
I have windows, two BSD's, and ten linux distro's all working fine with it.

Please tell me where to go (politely?)
to solve this problem,
Curt

Problem solved.
Switched to rtls driver, downloaded from:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/

I get a warning message at boot, stating
"rtls does not suppport pci1186,1300"
but it installs (and WORKS !!) as pci1186,1301.

Two weeks to get this working. No help from 3 different forums.
Makes you really appreciate the people developing linux !

Now for the audio, networked printer, sharing files .....
Why am I doing this ?!?!?
Curt