On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 22:26 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> > wrote: > > How do I get a working compiler w/o having a working ethernet connection? > > Or without a working compiler, how can I get an ethernet driver for the > > Nvidia GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M so I can make ethernet work? > > > > Installing Studio 12 from CD doesn't install the standard C headers which > > leaves me no way to compile the nfo driver for the Nvidia ethernet chipset. > > Compiling on U5 produces relocation errors when I move the object to > > snv_86. > > > > Why were the BSD license Murayama drivers not included? They are needed > > by quite a few laptops. > > > > In any event, there needs to be a sneaker net way install new device > > drivers. Depending on a working ethernet connection doesn't work very well. > > Pkg being so network entangled does not yet have an on-disk package > so your are stuck. Though this may change in future. > > For now you can get pre-compiled Masayuki-san's driver bundle in SVR4 > package format from here: > http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/scorched_3d_and_masayuki_san
Hey Moinak, I just added nfo (the driver Reginald is looking for) to SFEnicdrv today, along with some other changes. I posted new binaries here: http://trisk.acm.jhu.edu/SFE/SFEnicdrv/ - these are also built with GLDv3 so they're usable for Xen etc. Since most people are finding your page when searching for binaries, would you mind updating the tarball there? > > To my understanding pkg.opensolaris.org is not really a community > maintained software repo. The packages here are SUN supported and > there is quite a bit of process in getting software there including ARC > and legal processes. It takes time. There are folks in SUN working on > getting Masayuki-san's drivers into OpenSolaris. Yeah, the lack of a community-friendly repository needs to be fixed, and soon. I'm trying to push for SFE to be organised enough to set one up. > > Regards, > Moinak. -Albert
