If you install a NIC in a Solaris SPARC box, at least on Solaris 9, and you don’t know the device name, the following will help:
prtconf -pv | more
look for
device_type:Â 'network'
Near the network device you’ll see model and name, similar to this:
model:Â 'SUNW,pci-qfe'
name:Â 'SUNW,qfe'
In this case your device is a qfe card. You can get it up and running with
ifconfig qfe0 plumb
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