On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:26 PM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy > <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> That is bad. Open Solaris needs to work both with Reliance and Tata >> Indicom, co-develop a driver and make it work on Solaris. This is so >> fundamental. >> >> Shiva. >> > > I did some RTFM on this last night. Under *nix, logically you need > two things: > > a) Kernel support for the USB modem device > b) Some sort of "dialing" mechanism > > The latter should not be a major issue. 'pppd' is installed in 2008.5 > by default, along with chat. We would have to work out a workable > chat script by trial and error. In any case, if stuck, wvdial may have > to be compiled. The real issue is the kernel device support. It is not > a single driver, unfortunately. > > To my understanding, in linux, you need support for at least the > following modules, either built static or pulled up as a module: > > a) PPP (point-to-point protocol)) > b) PPP_ASYNC (PPP support for async serial ports) > c) USB_SUPPORT > d) USB_ACM (Modem (CDC ACM) support) > e) PPP_DEFLATE > f) PPP_BSDCOMP > g) Any more ? > > [ The last two (e and f) probably can be compromised with ] > > Which of the above is not available with the OpenSolaris > Kernel ? > > The problem is listing out what all modules are compiled/ loaded > with the default kernel on my 2008.5 box. What is the equivalent > of "lsmod" of linux ? Or, what is the equivalent of "insmod" ?
modinfo and modload is what you are looking for. Default module paths are under various directories in /kernel or /usr/kernel. You could give complete paths to modload as well. cheers Binu > (This is where old habits create problems, and you get stuck > for silly little things). > > Bish > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
