Howto add Network card driver

This quick hack guide for installing / adding Ethernet card on Solaris.

Do a search on "prtconf -pv | less" you will find for Ethernet or network string. In which it will list find the below information.

vendor-id:0000XXXX
device-id:0000YYYY

Do a search on internet for pciXXXX,YYYY for identifying which driver once you have figured that out, run the below command to update the driver

bash~# update_drv -a -i '"pciXXXX,YYYY"' <driver_name>

eg)
bash~# update_drv -a -i '"pciXXXX,YYYY"' bcme

Here "bcme" is Broadcom Ethernet card driver

And then to bringup all the network interfaces do

bash~# ifconfig -a plumb