> Haluk Durmus writes:
> > I have the same problem, but  don't want to give up
> opensolaris.
> > 
> > my ethernet and wireless kart are not suported
> (Broadcom b44 and bwm4312),
> > and to get it working, I also tried to compile the
> ndiswrapper to import the windows drivers. 
> 
> If there are binary versions available, it's not
> clear to me why you'd
> want to recompile them.  That's almost certainly
> harder.

I didn't know that there was a binary version.
I only saw after installation of opensolaris2008.05 that both devices are not 
supported.


> 
> For what it's worth, I've had awful luck with
> Broadcom wireless gear
> -- not just on Solaris, but on other OSes as well.  I
> recommend
> replacing that interface with just about anything
> else -- Atheros and
> Lucent devices seem to be fairly popular, perform
> well, and are
> well-supported.

Yes you are right. It's company laptop and I had not a choice.

> 
> > I got an error message that gcc is not found. 
> > So I tried to find a gcc package to download it
> from a other pc and then copy it with usbstick to my
> opensolaris laptop.
> > But I didn't found such a package !
> 
> You don't seem to say where you looked for such a
> package.

first I looked at opensolaris.org. Than with googeling I found  blastwave.org
But I was not able to relate it with opensolaris2008.05.

> 
> One place you could look would be:
> 
> 
> tp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/blastwave.org/uns
> table/i386/5.11
> 
> Note that you'd have to fetch not just the core gcc
> package itself,
> but several related and dependent packages.
>  Resolving those
> ependencies is why getting a working network
> connection _first_ and
> _then_ attempting to download large and complicated
> software is a
> better idea.
> 
> > The only way to install gcc is to have a internet
> connection on the target pc.
> > I hope I'm not right!
> 
> It's not the only way, but it's certainly by *far*
> the easiest way.
> 

Are I'm not able to download a iso with all the packages and give that as 
package source, instead of trying to find out all dependences (don't know how) 
and download all single package. ?
 
 
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