How to find my NIC …. an interesting twist

I got a comment from Byron to my Sun blog asking::

Thanks for the info, but what if ‘prtpicl -v’ returns no result with

‘model:Ethernet||Network’? I know it’s there b/c it shows up in the

results of /usr/X11/bin/scanpci:

nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller

I’m trying to get the nge driver to work with my nForce 4

6150/430 motherboard (MSI K8NGM2 FID). At first it seemed that

driver_aliases simply had the wrong device-id for it, the two lines

being:

nge pci10de,56

nge pci10de,57

I used update_drv -a -i ‘”pci10de,269″‘ nge to add the correct

device-id, as shown in scanpci, then ‘reboot — -r’, but no luck, still

doesn’t recognize the onboard ethernet controller.

Any suggestions about what else I could try? I’d really like to get the

nge driver working if at all possible since it supposedly supports this

ethernet controller, but will resort to Masayuki’s nfo driver if

necessary.