> 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.
You can get this driver prepackaged from Juergen Keil's site, under "Community DU diskette". I downloaded it directly from Murayama-san, compiled it for SPARC and packaged it myself. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
