William Papolis wrote: > Neal, > > A few additional points ... > > 1. I was installing OpenSolaris Developer Edition 2007-09 > 2. I did an install and booted to the OS > 3. Basically I noticed some errors on boot related to devices not getting > detected, then later there were warnings. Sorry, I am going by memory now, > and I don't remember the exact messages. In the future I can provide > additional info if I try to re-install. Hopefully the info supplied above is > sufficient. > > At this point networking was down, and I didn't feel like struggling with it > any further. I have enough Solaris experience that I could likely fix this, > if it's possible, but I was expecting to NOT have to go through that hassle. > Especially when Indiana is coming out in a couple of weeks, and that build > includes many additional things I want. (ZFS boot partition yada, yada) > > Plus, I remember in my company we used to keep a box of 3COM905b's if we were > building Solaris instead of having to go through the hassle of adding > additional drivers during install. It saved a ton of hassle. >
The 3COM stuff is no longer valid, and is "dino-era" history. For the last few years, we track current Intel, Nvidia, and Broadcom gigibit nics, as well as Realtek. We're adding others this year also. So if your intel nic does not work, it's an exception, and that's why I was so interested. FYI, from the info you supplied, your laptop is based on Intel ICH-7 which we fully support. We'll dig a little deeper, but will most likely need to wait until you try again and we can chat for some detailed debug. Cheers, Neal > Bill > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
