Stanislav N. Vardomskiy wrote: > I would like to second the request for out of the box support for > Marvell Ethernet Adapter.
I've logged 6660771 need GLDv3 driver support for Marvell Yukon FE+ in Solaris (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6660771) > Case in point: I am using an Apple MacBook as my desktop and day to > day admin either snv or Solaris 10 systems. Yesterday I tried the > 2008.05 LiveCD release on my MacBook, only to find out that while the > CD boots, and GUI loads, neither the wireless (Atheros 5424 A/B/G/N) > nor wired (Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet) are supported out of the > box. Yes, I can get the syskonnect driver or edit the PCI IDs in > drv.conf somewhere, but in order to do that, I have to get the > syskonnect driver onto the laptop in the first place. Seems like USB > key is the only way to do it at the moment. > > Some information on LiveCD and MacBook is posted at > http://forums.opensolaris.com/thread.jspa?threadID=254 > > As an aside, a big thank you to the Nevada team for expanding support > for Nvidia NICs. While recently re-installing SNV_87 on MSI P4N SLI > motherboard, I noticed that onboard nge0 (mCP04) was detected by the > installer out of the box. This system was oldish, and used to run > snv_57 before, and back then I had to use Masayuki Murayama???s free > driver (Previous experience is documented at > http://www.theconsultant.net/archives/2006/11/25/203/ ). Thank you > for making it easy. It's also the default chip on Dell XPS laptops. Masa's myk driver is the one to look for and the more help you or anyone else can give to help him debug the 2.6.0 version will be of benefit to us all. I would have done more but my day job started taking all my sleeping cycles as well as awake :| James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson
