Been able to painfully make it through installing opensolaris on Gigabyte GeForce 6100/Nforce 430 motherboard. I had mistakenly assumed that the painfree installation on nForce590 XFX board with a XFX GE7900 meant good across the board support for nvidia chipsets and boy was I wrong.
In any event i have been able to overcome an out of sync issue with the display and suffered through installing the latest nvidia drivers. The only thing I need to accomplish is getting the network card working, don't care about sound because this is going to be a file server. Solaris was picked for its reputation and ZFS, but it has come at a price that I am starting to wonder about. Back to my issue, I have tried unsuccessfully to install Murayama's nfo driver. I can never get the drivers to compile and always get an error saying make doesn't know how to make install. I tried just copying the precompiled binaries, but still no luck. I have only gotten as far as getting the interface to show up as active in x-windows, but I am not even sure if this is correct or not. I have the nfo driver attached to pci address 3ef and 269 without any issue. I have configured all the necessary host files, etc. I have tried to go through different remedies I have seen on the internets(!) but no dice. If someone could help me with either (i) compiled binaries for an amdx2 system in 64 bit, (ii) a troubleshooting walkthrough for resolving my compiling error, check whether the system is actually interacting with the interface, and anything else that can help me. I followed all the steps in the readme, tried them in different order, etc. So I am pretty much stumped. Also, any chance that I can get over this by going with a different distribution? If I cannot get this working this weekend, I am going to look to a linux, freeNAS, or linux-with ZFS solution. Solaris looks and sounds great but the sheer hardware and driver crapshoot is always going to be its achilles heal I'm afraid and that means I will have to send more money to redmond for low quality products that usually work. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
