Am Montag, den 30.06.2008, 12:55 +1000 schrieb James C. McPherson: > Michael Schmitt wrote: > ... > > Thanks for the _fast_ reply! Oh, I've read about that kind of > workaround > > a few times before with different hardware, but as I thought this > "bug" > > is somewhat different and that there would be a "No, I will not work > > with this card!" function in the driver or something else, I didn't > > think it would work :) > > But that said, glad that I was wrong! Does this fix work with the > > installer CD as well? Like fireing up a xterm there, issueing the > > command? Is it the same driver for 3112 and 3512 chips? I want to > > install opensolaris to the two discs on that controller (playing > around > > with ZFS) so I need to convince the driver to accept this card from > day > > one :) and as I am new to OpenSolaris I am a bit lost and don't find > the > > the answers for all my questions... as said I am new to the solaris > way, > > please bear with me... a direction to the correct manual is ok > too :) > > Hi Michael, > yes, it should be possible to get this happening from > the Installer. If you're SX_DE_ then you would need to > hit <alt><tab> (iirc) to get to the terminal session > and run that update_drv command. (Yes, it's the same > driver btw). If you're using SX_CE_ then you should > just be able to right-click anywhere on the desktop and > fire up Terminal.
I took http://dlc.sun.com/osol/opensolaris/2008/05/os200805.iso no DE or CE edition I think? A Gnome live CD as it seems with the possibility to install OpenSolaris with it. The logged in user is "Jack" iirc, no idea about if he got the right permissions to do the job. I will look into it tomorrow. > My understanding is that once those bugs are integrated, > you won't need to do any of this manual update_drv stuff > at the installer since it should all Just Work(tm). > > Docs-wise, the system admin collection is a good place > to start: > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/47.23 > > likewise for the release and installation collection: > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1236.2 Thanks! Sounds like good bed lecture :) greets Michael P.S.: good night _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
