Brain Goo » solaris http://www.popmartian.com/tipsntricks Carpe Crap 'em Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:42:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Locate an Unknown NIC Device Name in Solaris 9 http://www.popmartian.com/tipsntricks/2009/06/02/locate-an-unknown-nic-device-name-in-solaris-9/ http://www.popmartian.com/tipsntricks/2009/06/02/locate-an-unknown-nic-device-name-in-solaris-9/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:31:19 +0000 admin http://www.popmartian.com/tipsntricks/?p=118 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 is a qfe card.  You can get it up and running with
ifconfig qfe0 plumb

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Very comprehensive tutorial on setting up a Solaris Jump Start server on Debian Linux (works on pretty much any Linux distro)

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