>Hi! I just installed Open Solaris on my new computer where I also have Debian >Linux installed. >My problem is now that under Open Solaris no network device is available while >under Linux there i s the on board ethernet device eth1. Under solaris I there was the following output from the comman d prtconf -vp: >compatible: 'pci8086,1094.8086.1.1' + 'pci8086,1094.8086.1' + 'pci8086,1' + >'pci8086,1094.1' + 'pc i8086,1094'... > >As under Linux the driver for this device seems to be a e1000g driver I tried >under solaris "ifco nfig e1000g0 plumb" and "ifconfig e1000g1 plumb". But the device didn't show up. The commands resul ted in the error message that there was no such device found. > >Is the driver for this device missing under open solaris or is it not yet >written? Is it possible to port the working Linux kernel module to Solaris? And if so, how can this be achieved?
If it works with our "e1000g" driver, something like: update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,1094" "pciex8086,1094"' e1000g could enable it for that particular device. (type literally with all quotes as specified) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
