Dr. Harald von Fellenberg wrote:
> Solaris may be rock solid, but it doesn't by far support the necessary
> breadth of current hardware. My desktop system has an Intel motherboard
> with an onboard Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 13) plus a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
> Ethernet controller. None of them is currently supported, let alone the
> Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism
> Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01) wireless interface.
>
> I have installed Osol on my laptop, on a USB external disk as nr. 4 of
> my multiboot environment, but it is not up to par with the other OSes I
> use.
>
> Harald
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>
>
> Ihsan Dogan schrieb:
>   
>> On 19.11.2009 10:23, Daniel Bossert wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Thank you very much for your advice!
>>> I *love* Debian since years, and I wanted to change to Ubuntu only because
>>> I had problems to get flashplayer running inside of iceweasel (firefox).
>>>       
>> Trough the years, Debian became more a religion than a Linux distribution.
>>
>>     
>>> So I will install Debian again this evening and hope to get flash working.
>>>       
>> Why not to run just plain Solaris? It's rock solid.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ihsan
>>
>>     
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If you use a build  < snv_124 you can use Marvell Yukon driver for your 
88E8001 card, it's not yet supported by the new yge driver.


Regards,

Olivier

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