Hi All,

I'm a newbie to administering Solaris, though I have a good bit of experience with Linux and FreeBSD. To gain some more experience, I installed Solaris 9 x86 on an older PC here. The PC has a 3COM 3C509 ethernet adapter, which I just can't seem to make work.

Accoring to /boot/solaris/devicedb/master, the card is supported and requires the elx driver. I have tried 'ifconfig plumb elx' which gives me a bad address and 'ifconfig elx plumb' which gives me a "no such file" error. I thought based on what I read that's how I would load the driver to get the card working.

Anyways, I'm probably missing something very simple/haven't done enough research, but I'm at a bit of a loss now, so if someone could help me out I'd be most appreciative.

The right command to instanciate the interface should be:

# ifconfig elx0 plumb

but first, try "devfsadm -v" and "prtconf -v" to see if the card is detected

Tried that and it didn't work, but it's not your fault. I pulled the case off the machine and discovered that the card listed on my hardware manifest was NOT the same card as was in the machine . Anyhow, I'll see what I can do with the new card (some sort of Linksys) and report back here if I need guru guidance.

Thanks for the help.