Apologies in advance for the noise. How do I go about finding out whether the Rhine II ethernet drivers (on some VIA integrated chipset, I believe) are part of Indiana?
I tried the x86 Solaris download about a year ago and got stuck on the drivers for my on-board ethernet port (Rhine II). Found the drivers, downloaded them, couldn't figure out how to get them onto a partition readable by Solaris. Decided to try again this year, requested the Solaris Express DVD in the hopes that the driver had been upgraded to being part of the current distribution. No such luck. I figured out (once, can't seem to recall at the moment) how to mount a FAT32 partition, so I have the drivers moved to the Solaris file system, but I haven't been able to compile them. They are dependent on several "system" include files that were not part of the toolchain that was in the Solaris Express DVD, and it appears that the files provided for downloading didn't include the driver architecture common files (or something like that). I did find the include files referenced, but not the driver common files. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I don't like to load binary that I haven't compiled myself into the system. I figure that it takes a lot more evil guts to hide backdoors and such in source code than in binary. Not that I distrust anyone in particular, just don't like to start making exceptions to security rules if I can avoid it. Thus, the question above. If I could confirm that Indiana does contain the Rhine II drivers in the distribution (compiled, I would hope, by someone the community knows and trusts using methods the community considers sufficiently secure), I think I would go ahead and download and play with Indiana, but if I find myself stuck at the same question of trusting a binary blob whose author I don't seem to be able to contact by e-mail (I've tried.), I think I'll wait another year to try again. (As an alternative, if someone here can point me to the right mailing list for questions about drivers in Solaris Express, I'd be happy to go bother them, instead. I haven't been able to discern a mailing list for Solaris Express, although I admit I haven't looked today.) Any help appreciated. Joel Rees (waiting for a 3+GHz ARM processor to come out, to test Steve's willingness to switch again.) _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
