MAC Addr reversal is a problem with NVIDIA nge0 drivers : the solution is =>
the MAC address shown to me by my Linux / opensolaris were different (reverse of each other ) // going the Linux way helped ! ifconfig nge0 ether < reverse( MAC address shown before reversal) > It worked for me in the same way ! and regarding libXm.so.4 issue , please refer => http://blogs.sun.com/quenelle/entry/misligned_elf_section_headers regards, myOSx86 On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:08 PM, kernel hacker <myosx86 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Shivkumar, > > I have been struggling since last week owing to confusion as > to > > which compiler to use. I have all possible patches and compilers > downloaded > > on my machine. It would be great if you can give me some standard > procedure > > that you all are using , so that instead of wasting time on getting > foxed > > on compiler issues I can concentrate on more interesting ideas related to > > storage and networking. > > > > We follow literally what Shiv has mentioned. SS11 is what the Belenix > team uses mostly, except if a particular package needs SS12 > explicitly. > > > I started to fix some bugs related to networking / filesystems and > landed > > up into OpenMotif installation ;-) and getting the MAC address reversed > on > > Opensolaris 2008.05 ( MAC addr. reversal was suprising :-D ) . > > I am not able to run anything that requires gui ( sunstudio etc !! ) > > libXm.so.4 liking issue. > > > > You don't really need openmotif. What exactly are you trying to fix in > the storage and filesystems space ? > The most that the belenix team installs additionally is the JDS (and I > myself avoid even that to identify which packages dependencies can be > changes from SUNW to SFE if possible). > > Also, what is this MAC address reversal ? I haven't faced this yet. > > Could you give me a link to this libXm.so.4 issue, please ? > > > > > > So can you please help me with this => > > (1) Which compiler you are using ? SS12 or SS11 ?? ( with SS11 there were > > issues like SUNWhea etc , which I could fix , but there are other issues > .. > > ) so opensolaris forum suggested me to install SS12 .. so did , but this > > popped up altogether other issues :-) > > I'll let Moinak answer this one. > > > (2) Which Java you are using ? > > Depends upon the individual. I maintain JDK 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 for for > Eclipse related work. > > > (3) any other tools which I will need ?? > > > > In case you're going to port apps, or build packages yourself, then > the pkg tools from http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/ would be > necessary. Mane sure that you add /opt/pkg to the PATH. > > > > > - myosx86 > > :-) > > > > -- Sriram > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/attachments/20081006/8d3c3691/attachment.html>
