> > The easiest way as I found out is to try the > BeleniX > > or NexentaOS liveCD to see if either works. Most > > likely it will. Then (hopefully, fingers crossed) > > someone here will detail the steps of how to copy > the > > NIC driver from the liveCD to your installed > Solaris > > proper. > > I hope by that by that you don't mean actually doing > a `cp` of the driver. One should never modify the > system in such a way; if the software is not > packaged, it should never come onto the system. > > Anything that's "installed" on the system without > using the SW management subsystem (i.e. `pkgadd` and > friends) immediately violates system's integrity, and > should be avoided at all costs.
I am sure you know what I meant. What's been bothering me is that, most MB makers use the same embedded NIC, but the Solaris developers seem extremely persistent not to include the implementation (detection & installation) of this driver in the "official release" (whatever that means). I have been out of the Solaris loop for quite a while, exception playing with the LiveCDs whenever a new version popped up. Perhaps the situation has improved. But it doesn't appear to be so. By excluding the low-end-but most ubiquitous-LAN driver from the distro, the Solaris team is cutting off millions of Solaris-wannabes from the bottom of the food chain. Perhaps there is a perfectly good reason for doing that, but this is IMHO too high a price to pay. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
