Solaris 10 doesn't find network card

I recently installed Solaris 10 06/06 x86 on my desktop machine, a Compaq Evo with an onboard Intel 10/100 network card.

At first the Solaris installation seemed to hang while trying to find a network configuration from a nonexistent RPC boot server. In retrospect, I think the problem was that Solaris didn't find an appropriate driver for the card but after waiting a long time, the installation continued skipping the network configuration.

Running prtconf -pv shows the pci identification details for the ethernet card:

model: ‘Ethernet controller' power-consumption: 00000001.00000001 fast-back-to-back: devsel-speed: 00000001 interrupts: 00000001 max-latency: 00000038 min-grant: 00000008 subsystem-vendor-id: 00000e11 subsystem-id: 00000012 unit-address: ‘8' class-code: 00020000 revision-id: 00000081 vendor-id: 00008086 device-id: 0000103b name: ‘pcie11,12'

Looking up the identification information in the PCI ID repository tells me I'm dealing with a 82801DB PRO/100 VM (LOM) Ethernet Controller

Looking at /boot/solaris/devicedb/master, I found the following similar drivers:

bash-3.00# grep 82801DB /boot/solaris/devicedb/master pci8086,1039 pci8086,1039 net pci iprb.bef "Intel 82801DB Ethernet 82562ET/EZ PHY" pci8086,103d pci8086,103d net pci iprb.bef "Intel 82801DB PRO/100 VE Ethernet"

Both cards use the iprb driver so I add the identifier for my driver into /etc/driver_aliases:

iprb "pci8086,1038" iprb "pci8086,1039" iprb "pci8086,103b" iprb "pci8086,103d"

Load the driver with the modload command and plumb the interface:

modload /kernel/drv/iprb ifconfig iprb0 plumb

If that works, create the /etc/hostname.iprb0 file. I wanted to use DHCP so I did the following:

touch /etc/dhcp.iprb0 touch /etc/hostname.iprb0

Then do a reconfigure reboot.