Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-06-02 Thread Haluk Durmus
now i downloaded all 3.4 Gigs of blastwave pkgs. I put all on a usbstick and installed gcc3 using pkg-get. But when i try to use make it still wants to use /usr/sfw/bin/gcc and not the /opt/sfw/bin/gcc. I symlinked from /opt/sfw/bin/gcc to /usr/sfw/bin/gcc, but then the standart header files

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-06-02 Thread Sergio Enrique Schvezov
Haluk Durmus wrote: now i downloaded all 3.4 Gigs of blastwave pkgs. I put all on a usbstick and installed gcc3 using pkg-get. But when i try to use make it still wants to use /usr/sfw/bin/gcc and not the /opt/sfw/bin/gcc. I have no idea what you're trying to do... but this will get gcc

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-06-02 Thread James Carlson
Haluk Durmus writes: now i downloaded all 3.4 Gigs of blastwave pkgs. I put all on a usbstick and installed gcc3 using pkg-get. But when i try to use make it still wants to use /usr/sfw/bin/gcc and not the /opt/sfw/bin/gcc. Make for what? What are you building, and why does it have a

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-06-02 Thread Jesse Lehman
Make for what? What are you building, and why does it have a hard-coded path to /usr/sfw/bin? I believe that vurte is trying to build ndiswrapper per the instructions at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-06-02 Thread Haluk Durmus
Make for what? What are you building, and why does it have a hard-coded path to /usr/sfw/bin? I believe that vurte is trying to build ndiswrapper per the instructions at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/nd is/. thats correct. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-06-02 Thread James Carlson
Jesse Lehman writes: Make for what? What are you building, and why does it have a hard-coded path to /usr/sfw/bin? I believe that vurte is trying to build ndiswrapper per the instructions at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/. Ah, ok. The makefile there hard-codes

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
I have the same problem, but don't want to give up opensolaris. my ethernet and wireless kart are not suported (Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX and BCM4312 802.11a/b/g), Hey, that 4401 is supported. There is a III party driver for it and it works really well (my laptop too has the same

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread a b
/usr/5bin/ls -- ??? It belongs to SUNWscpu package, which is utilities for user interface and source build compatibility with SunOS 4.x. why the heck are we dragging that baggage ? Because Solaris is backwards compatible? (;-) For example, Legato NetWorker relies on a

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no post-install script facility within IPS so you have to run the mkheaders script yourself .. for now : What!?!?! There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!? I heard anbout this seveeral

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread James Carlson
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

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!? I heard anbout this seveeral times and I am wondering how one would install a driver without this feature. Because

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Peter Tribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!? I heard anbout this seveeral times and I am wondering how one would install

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: I heard anbout this seveeral times and I am wondering how one would install a driver without this feature. By marking it as a driver, and letting the packaging system run it's standard driver installation actions. Most drivers don't need custom scripts that each

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Driver installations modify files like /etc/name_to_major /etc/driver_aliases /etc/devlink.tab /etc/minor_perm ... by inserting lines. Parts of this work is done by calling add_drv(1M) but others is done by including shell or sed scripts into the driver's

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Jon Trulson
On Wed, 28 May 2008, UNIX admin wrote: There is no post-install script facility within IPS so you have to run the mkheaders script yourself .. for now : What!?!?! There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!? Really?? I'm with 'Unix

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Haluk Durmus
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

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Haluk Durmus
I have the same problem, but don't want to give up opensolaris. my ethernet and wireless kart are not suported (Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX and BCM4312 802.11a/b/g), Hey, that 4401 is supported. There is a III party driver for it and it works really well (my laptop too has

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread James Carlson
Haluk Durmus writes: 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. ? Sure.

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Jesse Lehman wrote: Some more thoughts: * From Sun's Ruby Developer site: Get NetBeans. Get GlassFish. Get Cool Stack. Or get them all with Solaris Express, Developer Edition Sounds great, but the development has been taken out of the developer edition. The transformation to

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
There is no post-install script facility within IPS so you have to run the mkheaders script yourself .. for now : What!?!?! There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
/usr/bin/ls -- 32 bit Unix SYSV(?) ls Yes. /usr/ucb/ls -- BSD ls I think Yes, BSD. Well, SunOS 4.x, which was BSD based. /usr/xpg4/bin/ls -- Posix ?? ls /usr/xpg6/bin/ls -- Posix ?? ls Yes. /usr/bin/amd64/ls-- 64 bit ls /usr/5bin/ls -- ??? It

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no post-install script facility within IPS so you have to run the mkheaders script yourself .. for now : What!?!?! There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!?

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:32 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/bin/ls -- 32 bit Unix SYSV(?) ls Yes. /usr/ucb/ls -- BSD ls I think Yes, BSD. Well, SunOS 4.x, which was BSD based. /usr/xpg4/bin/ls -- Posix ?? ls /usr/xpg6/bin/ls -- Posix ?? ls Please

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:55 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no post-install script facility within IPS so you have to run the mkheaders script yourself .. for now : What!?!?! There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!?

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Jesse Lehman
Thanks for all the replies. I hadn't seen any NWAM success stories online, but now I know that they're out there. I've also cleared up some misconceptions about the size of Solaris 10. I don't think that I'll stick with OpenSolaris, but the problem is more with my preconceptions than with

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Haluk Durmus
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. I got an error message that gcc is not found. So I tried to

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
No. Pkg is a no-scripting zone: http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/pkg_1_a_no_scripting I read that when he first wrote it, just thought that he meant that they came up with another system. The only facility being worked on is a postrun action that will allow a limited form of

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: How is that supposed to work? There are TONS of code that my System V packages run, in order to reach full hands-off automation. What am I supposed to do now?!?!?!? Now? Right now? Provide requirements and ask questions of the pkg team on the pkg-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread MC
There are TONS of code that my System V packages run, in order to reach full hands-off automation. What am I supposed to do now?!?!?!? You should tell the IPS developers what requirements you need met, that way everyone can see if any sheep have been left in the pasture!!! :-) This

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-27 Thread Jesse Lehman
Some more thoughts: * From Sun's Ruby Developer site: Get NetBeans. Get GlassFish. Get Cool Stack. Or get them all with Solaris Express, Developer Edition Sounds great, but the development has been taken out of the developer edition. The transformation to OpenSolaris seems to have removed

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-27 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/5/27 Jesse Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Does Network-Auto-Magic actually work for anyone? Yes, and it works beautifully. First time I installed 2008.05, I booted, and got prompted to connect to a wireless network. I typed my password and then I was connected. My home desktop is the same. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-27 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Get NetBeans. Get GlassFish. Get Cool Stack. Or get them all with Solaris Express, Developer Edition Sounds great, but the development has been taken out of the developer edition. The transformation to OpenSolaris seems to have removed the out-of-the-box development tools. Yes. There