[osol-discuss] Report Fresh Installation nv90 on DELL D400

2008-06-06 Thread Uwe Dippel
Fresh installation on an old notebook, Dell D400, with 1.2 GB of RAM; as one of 4 OSes: XP, OpenBSD, Ubuntu (and nv81 before). Booting to DVD, the first noteworthy message is: Attempting to configure interface bge0 Skipped interface bge0 Why? The driver is there, nv81 worked with it, and

Re: [osol-discuss] I want to boot OpenSolaris from USB disk

2008-06-06 Thread Andrew Watkins
Chen, How are you making the bootable USB in the first place? Have you followed the example which can be located on ether of these two blogs: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_developer_preview_on_usb or

Re: [osol-discuss] I want to boot OpenSolaris from USB disk

2008-06-06 Thread Hans
Hi, Kevin, interesting experiment. Could you brief your process of making USB disk image before more help can be given ? As a suggestion on a 2nd computer, please connect the USB disk. But instead of booting from it, boot from CD-ROM (or miniboot if any, unavailable for 2008.05 at default

Re: [osol-discuss] I give up.

2008-06-06 Thread James Carlson
Lu Baolu writes: I am encountering an e1000g error on Nevada snv_87. I am not sure whether it is the same as you stated. That's the one. Here's the work-around: One known problem with e1000g is that the new FMA support can cause it to erroneously report itself as faulty, resulting in

[osol-discuss] Stopping hard disks on boot

2008-06-06 Thread Alex
I installed Solaris Express Developer Edition 01/08. Every boot wile the kernel boots, all my disks (HDD/CDROM) stop for 1 second and start again I think the net stops too... (In Solaris 10 I haven't this problem) What I need to do for normal booting without stopping disks? This message

Re: [osol-discuss] Stopping hard disks on boot

2008-06-06 Thread Jürgen Keil
I installed Solaris Express Developer Edition 01/08. Every boot wile the kernel boots, all my disks (HDD/CDROM) stop for 1 second and start again I think the net stops too... (In Solaris 10 I haven't this problem) That's bug 6622965 (or 6706366) But an atapi optical device on a p-ata

Re: [osol-discuss] Stopping hard disks on boot

2008-06-06 Thread Alex
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Re: [osol-discuss] Strange network issue with dhcp

2008-06-06 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Raj, Ashok ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Folks Trouble: DHCP gets IP addr, but doesn't create /etc/resolv.conf I have had trouble like this on another system, but just ignored, now that I have hit it on another system I would like to find out a solution. Can someone help. During

Re: [osol-discuss] I give up.

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Kaiman
I called Sun and I was willing to spend $324 for a year of support. However, I asked if for my money they could guarantee a solution. I didn't want to shell out $$ for someone to run me through what I've already tried, and then be told they couldn't help. Turns out that Sun doesn't officially

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange network issue with dhcp

2008-06-06 Thread Raj, Ashok
Woohoo... that works. Thanks a ton Cheers, ashok raj - Open Source Technology Center You need to also make sure that /etc/nsswitch.conf has dns on the hosts: line. Such as: hosts: files dns You may need to refresh the name service cache after making this change: svcadm refresh

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange network issue with dhcp

2008-06-06 Thread James Carlson
Raj, Ashok writes: Any idea how to fix this lookup problem? Btw: reverse lookup also works fine. I think the problem is /etc/resolv.conf not being created automatically causes some trouble, cant figure out how to fix it. There are two parts to this: /etc/resolv.conf is the DNS subsystem

Re: [osol-discuss] I give up.

2008-06-06 Thread Brad Vaughan
Mark, I work in the services group at Sun. Would be interested to know if you have found anyone who would give you the "guarantee" you are looking for on that specific HW. I would be curious to review the service level commitment they offer. Just trying to make our services better.. Brad

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Requirements gathering meeting

2008-06-06 Thread Stephen Lau
Hi Tim, Thanks, I appreciate you getting the community involved in some of the planning re: Indiana. Just for my own clarification as to what sorts of requirements you're gathering, I assume you're asking the OGB members to participate purely as interested OpenSolaris community members

[osol-discuss] starting vncserver

2008-06-06 Thread Raj, Ashok
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2450/gfxsb?a=view Iam trying to follow directions in above site to get vncserver launched automatically. But when tried the steps in svccfg -s application/x11/x11-server:display1 addpropvalue options/server: /usr/X11/bin/Xvnc svccfg -s

Re: [osol-discuss] Requirements gathering meeting

2008-06-06 Thread MC
All (apologies in advance for cross-posting), I'd like to have a requirements gathering session with all of you and OGB, I for one appreciate this inviting notice to the community! I have a suggestion though. This comes from the fact that I don't know who you are. :) Since I don't know

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange network issue with dhcp

2008-06-06 Thread Aubrey Li
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:53 AM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raj, Ashok writes: Any idea how to fix this lookup problem? Btw: reverse lookup also works fine. I think the problem is /etc/resolv.conf not being created automatically causes some trouble, cant figure out how to fix it.

Re: [osol-discuss] New features I would like to see

2008-06-06 Thread Dr. Robert Pasken
sunfreeware: YES!! blastwave: HELL NO!! From blastwave a simple package install turns into a download fest. From sunfreeware you download the package you want, install it and it works. From blastwave the package you want requires that you download just about everything that blastwave has

[osol-discuss] drv/ip not forund

2008-06-06 Thread bijoy
Hi, Solaris Express 10 Developer edition running on core2duo, Intel DP35DP. It throws up the following error after accessing net through broadband. Cannot load module 'sockfs' sockfs: unable to resolve dependency module 'drv/ip' not