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How to make realtek 8139 work ?

807559Sep 29 2006 — edited Oct 3 2006

Hi folks, I installed solaris 10 express x86, nevada build 44 6/06, on my laptop, but I don't known how to make the NIC to work.
My system is a toshiba laptop S4014, with a realtek 8139 ethernet card (PCMCIA) - the builtin intel pro ethernet, just doesn't work (hardware failure).

I see the realtek 8139 is a supported card, as seen below:

# grep 8139 /boot/solaris/devicedb/master
/boot/solaris/devicedb/master:pci10ec,8139 pci10ec,8139 net pci none "Realtek 8139 Fast Ethernet"

# grep 8139 /etc/driver_aliases
/etc/driver_aliases:rtls "pci10ec,8139"

There is no

/dev/rtls0

device created.

Before the installation started, the pcmcia card, was plugged in.

Any advice is appreciated.

thanks

Claudio Miranda

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