Thank you for reporting this! Indeed - driver wasn't included into install CD. It will be fixed in Beta2 release early next year.
Meanwhile, try the following after the installation: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade (this will bring new myamanet-gani package) # apt-get install sunwrge # reboot On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:35 +0900, Peter Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently test-running the recently-released OpenSolaris 2008.11 > and have decided I'd like to have a go at replacing it with Nexenta > Core 2. > > The specific problem I ran into on my first (and so far only) install > attempt is this one - lack of a driver for the machine's network > hardware: > > Driver for device pci10ec,8136 is not available. > > D'oh! > > Running scanpci on the machine (after booting back into OpenSolaris > 2008.11) gives me this: > > Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet > controller > > The network card works fine under OpenSol 2008.11 - so as far as I > understand, there *is* an "official" OpenSol driver for this card. But > I think it (the driver) was only made available fairly recently, and I > suspect that it may only be distributed as part of the kernel. > > > My plan at the moment is to try installing Nexenta Core 2 _without_ > any networking support, and then acquire a driver from here: > > http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ > > (under the heading "15. gani driver for Realtek rtl8169 rtl8110 > rtl8168 rtl8101 PCI/PCI-Express GbE chipset") > > ...and attempt to install that. > > But I'm largely going by guesswork here - can anyone tell me if > there's a chance of that working, or would it be a really bad idea? > > Any alternative suggestions much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Pete. > > PS. In case anyone was going to suggest just using another network > card - I would've tried that too :-), except it's not possible for the > machine in question. _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
