Hi, I have installed EON on a board with a realtek network chip and although it works its very slow (12 MB/s on a gigabit network). Research led me to try the gani driver but I am having problems installing it, definitely resulting from my lack of Solaris skills. Theres a few things I dont understand and I apologise for being so stupid, this is my first Solaris experience (I have used Sun professionally for years but always get consultants to set them up - now I want to use it myself im stuck).
Theres no compiler on EON obviously, but when I saw that gani had binaries in the package I thought I could get away without compiling although I realise that might be wrong. The gani readme does not seem to have a non-complier install procedure documented, but I tried several other approaches in case they would work. I copied the gani file from i386 to the /kernel/drv/ directory and 'add_drv gani' and while it seems to load to me, it fails to work. Then I stripped out all references to rge in the devices file, removed rge from /kernel/drv, used updimg to put the gani driver in the image and rebooted, but still I can not get it to load. I expect this is because its not properly installed aka compiled. I also tried running the adddrv script to no avail. I also can not see how to get a compiler on EON, I see references to what looks to me like a compiler that is meant to be used on another machine to compile on - is that right and is that the only way? I dont have access to any other solaris machines now. So basically I dont know where to go, if anyone could tell me what I should do I would appreciate it a lot. I guess that I either have to get a compiler on the installation of EON, or if the binaries that come with gani are usable on their own, I must have installed them wrong. If its the compiler route, roughly how to I get a compiler on it? It seems complicated by the fact that EON runs in ram. Or if those binaries are usable, what am I doing wrong? System is based on a D945GSEJT board. Best result I have been able to get is solaris telling me the driver is loaded but unable to attach. Thanks, Pete -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ distribution-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss
