James C. McPherson wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > I too have a MacBook Pro. Problems plaguing OpenSolaris on this hardware are STILL with EFI handling, the workarounds still are dangerous, and partly at the fault of Apple you can't use a USB disk reliably, (Open)Solaris doesn't like them anyways BIOS (MBR) or EFI it doesn't matter. My Atheros (MBP3, Atheros not broadcom) doesn't work out of the box, neither does the Marvell Yukon, same goes for FreeBSD 6/7, tried that too, it doesn't support my laptop either. Even most Linux distros new and old don't like it, though MadWifi supports it, and the ethernet driver works fine. The main issues is with how grub installs itself, it's VERY annoying, then the needing to edit the driver files and force plumb, etc, just not a quality action to go through, makes my hands feel dirty. Hardware drivers are one thing sysadmins shouldn't have to worry about, these devices are open and widely used enough and not just tied to this particular hardware, it must be included. For us, it will only be included 6mo down the line with the CD, or with bi-monthly SXCE DVD's, which may take a few months, been a full year so far without a cent of support, and then the lack of GLDv3 makes things painful. (xVM, Zones, Crossbow) I tried and tried, possibly wearing my unit out faster than normal, trying to get OpenSolaris decently working, it has cost me tons of time so far without it even working correctly. The best option would be to image a copy of OpenSolaris and then install a boot loader onto the superblock (Which UFS doesn't like) and even with rEFIt things go wrong randomly at boot. James, please give me explicit instructions on dual-booting, I will not wipe OSX, OpenSolaris cannot replace neither Windows or OSX for a desktop, maybe for you since you're a kernel engineer, regardless... I still want to use it, I need to be current since this is my career area.
James
