yesterday i tried to install solaris. at the beginning it tried to install network for nearly 5 minutes (but i have adsl, so it didn't work ;) ). then it didn't like my hdd and suggested to delete all partitions and create a own one. because i didn't like, i didn't do it ;)

the problem is now: i do also have two linuxes (gentoo and kubuntu) and freebsd. and in all of them adsl isn't working no more. i know, it sounds strange, but solaris must have done something to my network card.
and it isn't really broken, because in windows adsl works just fine.
what may be the problem? here's ifconfig of it:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:BF:FF:2C
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x4c00

My guess would be that there is a zero chance that Solaris did that. Since you say windows can use it then the nic is good.

Use the man pages or other gui to config the network for each OS.

I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

well, how else do you want to explain that all three *nixes worked perfectly on that day and the day before and stopped to work after the installation attempt. i didn't think that if was solaris after trying to connect to the internet in gentoo either, but after i tried other both oses, there's just no other explanation, but that solaris somehow messed up either the network card's or the modem's preferences.
i don't know how windows treats that stuff and how linux/freebsd do at all, but it's possible that windows reconfigures it his own way each time or ignores some stuff solaris may have made. but i don't have a slightly idea what it may be. the only sure thing is - solaris did this.

ps. my modem identifies itself as zyxel prestige 660R-63/67. there's lots of settings in the web interface, but they don't say me anything.

ok, it was the network card, though it worked in windows. i got the problem solved by replacing it.