So I was bored with my workstation and decided to switch OS. I've tried openSUSE but did not like it and wanted something new and different. So I picked opensolaris. It took several tries(crashes) to finally have this up and running with the latest code and the way my old workstation was setup.
This is a old workstation a Compaq Evo with P4-2.4 and 1G of memory and a onboard e100 card.
I booted the machine using the 2008.05 LiveCD and installed the Live image. So far so good.
Rebooted and found that my NIC was not working... after looking at the manual(google) I found that the iprb can be used for the e100. So I ran the Device Driver Utility and found that my e100 was on pci8086 and device id of 103b
I edited /etc/drivers_alias and added a line iprb "pci8086,103b" and since my workstation only links up at 10/half but I can manually set this to 10/FULL I hard set the NIC to sync up at 10/FULL.
echo "ForceSpeedDuplex=2;" >> /kernel/sys/iprb.conf
The modes are:
1 10/half
2 10/full
3 100/half
4 100/full
5 auto
rebooted and now I have network. I know that I could have used the update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,103b"' iprb instead of a reboot but I wanted to make sure that after the reboot this will work.
