Linked by Robert Escue on Wed 2nd Mar 2005 22:28 UTC
The vast majority of operating system reviews are the result of a user spending a few days or weeks using a particular operating system and writing about their observations. This review is the result of my continued use of Solaris 10 (previously Solaris Express) from August 2003 to February 2005.
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rtls(7d) supports Realtek 8139 NIC's directly. You may need to edit /etc/driver_aliases to specify the PCI address of your particular NIC if it's not one of the more popular ones.
Solaris' driver support has always been a "if we know it works, it'll detect it - otherwise you'll need to specify it yourself" system.
Earlier releases of Solaris 10, for example, wouldn't automatically detect the Broadcom 5701 based dual gigabit ethernet on some Dell systems. Once testers reported that it did indeed work, Sun patched the driver_aliases database to allow it to work out of the box.
The point is, just because something -doesn't- work right away doesn't mean it won't - it just means that Sun's bread and butter market, the data center administrators, hasn't really tested that hardware thoroughly enough for it to be "blessed" by the driver.
That said, the 8139 really is a cheap POS NIC ... Solaris is probably doing you a favor by not detecting it right away.