Miguel Da Silva - URI escribió: > Dear users, I found this USB controller available - > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/peripherals/usb/vt6212/ - and it's > really cheap (less than US$ 10,00), so I'm planning buy this one and > test OpenSolaris with it. > > The "problem" is that I have an old Pentium II and its motherboard do > not have any USB port. OpenSolaris boots up, but when I have to choose > the language, the keyboard is not available. > > And here goes the question, does anyone know if this controller (with > the Via chipset) works fine with OpenSolaris? > > Thank you all!!!
Here goes some "feedback" just to keep registry of what I could achieve. 1) Finally I could boot the system with no problem related to the keyboard. The 4-port USB controller by VIA (using VT6212L chipset) was detected corretly and right after the GRUB screen the USB keyboard was already available. Just a note: it did work too when I booted the machine up with Solaris 10 Express Edition. 2) If you have less than 512MB RAM do not try to run OpenSolaris. :) First I tried it with just 256MB available and it was really slow. Upgrading it to 512MB made things easier and the system is "usable" now. Another note: my plan is learn, study the system, come close to the "Solaris world". I could already install a real Solaris 10 system at the job, but there I can not experiment too much. 3) Things are almost like I want it to be to me start studying it. I'm doing some tunning and the most complicated was set the network up. Indeed, the problem was related with name resolution. I mean, I could set the network up right; disabling nwam and enabling static configuration. But, every command that need DNS (ping, for instance) was not working. Just an example: ping 164.73.82.36 164.73.82.36 is alive ping merlin.cmat.edu.yu ping: unknown host merlin.cmat.edu.uy To make this work properlly I had to add the following line to /etc/system: set xnf:xnf_cksum_offload = 0 Wel,, I think that's all (by now, :) ). Greetings. -- Miguel Da Silva Unidad de Recursos Informáticos Facultad de Ingeniería - http://www.fing.edu.uy Universidad de la República - http://www.rau.edu.uy _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
