Configure network card in Sun Solaris 10 for Dell Optiplex 745

UNIX Solaris
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Dear All,

I am a beginner of Sun Solaris. Now I install Sun Solaris 10 on my machine Brand Dell optiplex 745. When i complete installation I found no Network Card
in my computer by using command ifconfig -a, I found only loopback Adapter.
Could anyone help me to solve this problem?

Cheer,

Bee

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Which brand is the network card? You might have to install appropriate drivers to be able to use it, assuming such drivers exist for solaris ...

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Thank for your reply and my Network card brand name is Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller. Could you help me to install this driver in sun solaris?

Thanks,

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You have to download the driver from broadcom, I know they have it in a solaris pkg format, I had to use it recently on an HP DL580 server...
install (pkgadd) the drivers and reboot ...
After that it depend if you use dhcp or static ip ...

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Hum not all broadcom cards...
The Broadcom Ethernet NIC NetXtreme II 1 Gigabit Driver is provided exept for the 57710 chipset and not the netlink 57xx nic

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Now i just download driver Broadcom NIC from its Official site. So i will try to set and configure it. Thanks for you help...

Cheer,

Bee