I'm a complete NEWBIE to the OpenSolaris world!!!! So I am writing this HowTo for all the OpenSolaris NEWBIE'S out there... I'll do my best to explain how to setup basic networking on OpenSolaris as I was stuck for a good 3 hours trying to get basic networking connectivity working.

I had no network connectivity, so I had to google for a few seconds and I found that if you run "ifconfig <interface_name> dhcp start" this will send a DHCP request to the DHCP server. Well I ran this and it just sat there and waited until it exited with no dhcp server response. I did not know if that was the right driver for my network card though I did assume it was why else OpenSolaris choose that driver for me.

My first instinct is how do I found out for sure that "nge"  was the correct driver for my network card. So I need a utility that is equivalent to "lspci" in the OpenSolaris world, after some searching I found "scanpci" and "prtconf". Though "prtconf" did not give me what I was looking for in this situation but "scanpci" did. This is the output of "scanpci" for my network controller...

"/usr/X11R6/bin/scanpci -v"

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x07 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x03ef
 nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet
 CardVendor 0x1565 card 0x2505 (Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp, Card unknown)
  STATUS    0x00b0  COMMAND 0x0007
  CLASS     0x06 0x80 0x00  REVISION 0xa2
  BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x00  LATENCY 0x00  CACHE 0x00
  BASE0     0xfe02d000  addr 0xfe02d000  MEM
  BASE1     0x0000ec01  addr 0x0000ec00  I/O
  MAX_LAT   0x14  MIN_GNT 0x01  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x0b
  BYTE_0    0x65  BYTE_1  0x15  BYTE_2  0x05  BYTE_3  0x25

The info above was a great help,
        1- The type of card we have and its model " nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet"
        2- The device ID 0x03ef thought all you really need is 03ef

I found this link on the OpenSolaris web site. This link will show you all the supported and third party supported drivers for OpenSolaris. I found the nfo driver which is for the nforce chipset. Though for the third party drivers, OpenSolaris does not provide you the link to the sources or binaries . So after another search on google I found this link http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/. This site was exactly what I needed, Here is the link for the newest driver for nfo.

After I downloaded nfo , here are the steps I took ( They were in the Readme.txt ).

1. gunzip nfo-2.6.0.tar.gz
2. tar -xvf nfo-2.6.0.tar
3. cd nfo-2.6.0
4. rm obj Makefile
5. ln -s Makefile.${KARCH}_${COMPILER} Makefile  ( for me it was ln -s Makefile.amd64_gcc  Makefile )
6. ln -s ${KARCH} obj ( for me it was ln -s amd64 obj )
7. rm Makefile.config
8. ln -s Makefile.config_gld3 Makefile.config
9. /usr/ccs/bin/make
10. /usr/ccs/bin/make install
11. cp nfo.conf /kernel/drv/nfo.conf
12. ./adddrv.sh
13. modload obj/nfo
14. devfsadm -i nfo
15. ifconfig nfoN plumb ( where N is the device number, for me it was nfo0 )
16. ifconfig nfo0 dhcp start ( this is if you want your interface to use DHCP )
17. touch /etc/dhcp.nfo0  ( this is if you want your interface to use dhcp when it come back up)
18. edit /etc/nsswitch.conf  ( Where it says host: files, change it to host: files dns )
19. reboot -- r

I am now connected to the internet!!! Everything I did above is what lead me to internet connectivity. The reason I gave you all the steps I had to do is so that you do not have to go through the same pain I did and at the same time learn some Solaris specific commands.Next I will give you the normal steps to get network connectivity. Steps for DHCP and steps for Static network connectivity.

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Camzrama   |66.143.34.xxx |2008-07-26 18:18:03 Excellent post. This saved me a great deal of time. Thanks. NOTE: Step 18 should read as follows... exit /etc/nsswitch.conf (Where it says hosts: files, change it to hosts: files dns).

dynasty   |SAdministrator |2008-07-26 19:04:44 Thanks for the corrections, I made the change. Also thanks for the compliment, as I hope I saved you some time.

Marco   |85.242.237.xxx |2008-08-25 08:58:01 I get stick on step 9. It gives me an error

dynasty   |SAdministrator |2008-08-25 10:10:53 What was the error? And is this for OpenSolaris? What is the Architecture amd64 or i386?

ydrake  - intel asus P5-GCVM   |Registered |2009-03-23 22:24:27 i386, any can help, step 11(cant copy from source) and 13(cant load module) got an error, thanks dynasty.

tiptop2  - nwam does not work   |Registered |2010-01-02 17:09:38 Quote: OS: 2009.06 Since i have the same NVIDIA chipset: What i did after installing Opensoalris 2009.06. I have downloaded nfo-2.6.0.tar.gz on USB stick and save in my home folder I ran these commands: 1 - 12, rebooted the solaris PC 13- modload obj/nfo 14- devfsadm -i nfo got an ERROR:devfsadm: driver failed to attach: nfo What i did not do according this link: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do;jsessio... did not unplumb the nge0 interface, Should i run at very beginning? ifconfig nge0 unplumb did not disable the interface in /etc/driver_aliases which section has to be removed? please show me an example did not remove the path in /etc/path_to_inst how does the path look which has to be removed? please show me an example Thank you for helps

zanthir  - Uninstall Driver     |Registered |2010-05-08 16:28:59 I tried this. One thing not mentioned is you should uninstall the current driver for your network card. (Mine was nge.) For me, this meant doing; ifconfig nge0 unplumb rem_drv nge reboot After that, I followed the instructions for installing the nfo driver, and it worked perfectly. Good luck, happy hunting.

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