Hi Till, I have been searching over the links that you provided for Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" and "Broadcom Limited BCM43228 802.11 a/b/g/n" wireless network cards but it seems that they are not supported yet.
I may have to try another network card, if possible, to see what might work. Will keep trying though. Thanks again, Lonnie On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Till Wegmüller <toaster...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Atheros 8k are supported via freenic drivers. > http://freenicdrivers.la.coocan.jp/ > > Broadcom Probably aswell. > > Also have a look if there are packages not installed > List from OI.org > http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/en/search.shtml?token= > atheros&action=Search > > You can list the packages via > $ pkg list | grep $NAME > or > $ pkg search -l atheros > > For Broadcom it should be the same deal. > > Hope this helps. > > > Greetings > Till > > On 07.11.2017 15:15, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > Thanks All for the nice welcome and I look forward to testing out OI as > > well as trying to contribute a bit along the way during the course of my > > projects. > > > > I actually, just tried to boot the OI (Hipster) live iso on an 64-bit AMD > > test machine that I have been running Ubuntu 16.04 and although it does > > boot up reasonably well, but I found that it does not recognize my > network > > cards "Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" and "Broadcom Limited > > BCM43228 802.11 a/b/g/n" wireless. Actually, it seems to see them in the > > device list, but it does not activate them so perhaps I need some drivers > > if they are available. > > > > Cheers, > > Lonnie > > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 11/ 7/17 12:26 PM, openbabel wrote: > >> > >>> Greetings All, > >>> > >>> I would like to add that if you have a particular interest in helping > the > >>> desktop environment advance we would welcome your imput. > >>> > >>> Robert Jones > >>> > >> > >> Just to add.. > >> ...and would also welcome posting answer to messages, below quotes :) > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> > >>> On 07/11/2017 07:53, Nikola M wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 11/ 7/17 01:34 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Greetings All, > >>>>> > >>>>> I have used many operating systems over the years and lately have > been > >>>>> using Windows (all flavors) as well as Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo, > >>>>> etc...) bu mostly have been using Ubuntu 16.04 as my desktop for some > >>>>> time > >>>>> now. > >>>>> > >>>>> Currently, I am gearing up to do a couple of projects which have the > >>>>> Illumos base which are in the SmartOS arena, but it made me start to > >>>>> wonder > >>>>> if I should also consider loading up OpenIndiana Hipster as my > desktop > >>>>> so > >>>>> that I can become more familiar with it as it seems to have many > >>>>> similarities as SmartOS and wanted to get the opinion of the OI > >>>>> community > >>>>> as to what they thought about it as a day-to-day OS? > >>>>> > >>>>> Mostly just exploring the possibility of nuking Ubuntu in favor of > >>>>> installing OI for a while to see how it runs. > >>>>> > >>>>> Any comments, experiences, or suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Firstly , Openindiana is the distribution name because /hipster > >>>> (lowercase) is not OS/distribution name, but a repository name. > >>>> I welcome you to illumos distributions, Unix-derived family. (It is > >>>> truly derived from Unix and not just Unix-like) > >>>> > >>>> Openindiana is a server-oriented UK-hosted OS that have a desktop. OI > >>>> has 'snapshots' twice a year (not a releases per se, since they are > not > >>>> supported to be updated as such like in Ubuntu) and in the meantime > there > >>>> are contiuous updates of fresh and 'vanilla' illumos updates and the > effort > >>>> of contributors in 'userland' source repository to make it better, > more bug > >>>> free and add fundamental features, where Alexander Pyhalov is > standing out > >>>> together with all other important contributors. > >>>> > >>>> Having a MATE desktop, Firefox ESR and LibreOffice (from SFE > >>>> repository), Openindiana is enough for everyday use of internet > services > >>>> and using Solaris zones (those might end up hosted in the illumos > based > >>>> cloud), but it is sure that some device driver support might lacking > or > >>>> trailing behind a bit. > >>>> You can also bootstrap Joyent SmartOS userland and use it in the > window, > >>>> using pkgsrc packages, separately installed, in the terminal emulator > and > >>>> have it together with OI desktop experience. There are also Boot > >>>> Envornments on top of ZFS that makes both testing and production use > more > >>>> reliable and predictive experience etc. > >>>> > >>>> So you can count on frequent and inclusive experience, that would > demand > >>>> of you to be more included in the development of the OI itself, not > only by > >>>> posting bug reports or driver support requests, but it could also > allow you > >>>> to be more directly involved (and more appreciated) then in some other > >>>> distributions you could. So it's both exciting and fulfilling > experience to > >>>> use it and make it better. > >>>> Don' take anything by the letter , be free to openly (and publicly!) > >>>> collaborate with others and everything you do will be important. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> openindiana-discuss mailing list > >>>> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > >>>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> openindiana-discuss mailing list > >>> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > >>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> openindiana-discuss mailing list > >> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss