I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on a T2000 with a Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe Low Profile Adapter (X4447A-z) inside. The machine gave lots of problems.
One of the issues was the following message which the machine logged hundreds if not thousands of times:

Oct 23 22:18:27 hostname fmd: SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-1L, TYPE: Defect,…

I recently installed Solaris 10 06/06 x86 on my desktop machine, a Compaq Evo with an onboard Intel 10/100 network card.
At first the Solaris installation seemed to hang while trying to find a network configuration from a non-existant RPC boot server. In retrospect, I think the problem was that Solaris didn’t find an…