If you install a NIC in a Solaris SPARC box, at least on Solaris 9, and you don’t know the device name, the following will help: prtconf -pv | more look for device_type: ‘network’ Near the network device you’ll see model and name, similar to this: model: ‘SUNW,pci-qfe’ name: ‘SUNW,qfe’ In this case your device [...]