9. Managing Devices

The information in this chapter is useful both for managing devices on your own laptop and for managing devices on a network of x86 based systems. This chapter helps answer questions such as: Why do I have no network connectivity? Why do I have no audio? This chapter also explains how to easily deploy the same new driver to a large number of systems.

This chapter presents techniques to discover physical devices on a Solaris system and to determine whether a driver module exists for each device. This chapter explains how to install a driver and determine whether a driver is working properly. This chapter also explains how to create a functional system if a driver does not exist. Lastly, this chapter provides command summaries ...

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