Today, I tried to install Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris on my Dell Dimension 5000, and everything went fine, except Ethernet connectivity. Dell uses the Broadcom BCM4401 Chip for onboard Ethernet in the Dell Dimension 5000, but unfortunately, there’s no Solaris 10 Driver for the the Broadcom BCM4401 Chip .
What nexxt, using VMWare or bying another NIC?
No, there’s a Version of a Solaris 10 bcf driver for bcm4401 fast ethernet chipset.
Install it, for DHCP usage, create two empty files, “/etc/ dhcp.bcf0″ and “/etc/hostname.bcf0″, reboot and everything is fine!
I also submitted a HCL to Sun.
I did the same thing but no luck!
by the way, are you sure it was bcf0 not bfe0?
Go through the instruction in the README.txt in the source directory… make install…then
touch /etc/dhcp.bfe0
touch /etc/sol10.bfe0
reboot
still cannot load this driver…