On Sunday 14 May 2006 11:46 am, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > The problem here is actually more than just frustrating but insulting. We > appreciate the helpful comments, but, when Solaris does not supply the NIC > driver for the NIC at issue here (which happens to be the most popular NIC > in the entire universe), how in the world are we supposed to "download" the > driver from the net?
Agreed, and I'm focusing on getting community drivers putback now, and working on one of Murayama's (broadcom 10/100 fast ethernet). > I will be more than happy to write a howto on installing the driver from a > USB stick. But this requires at least a minimum knowledge of Solaris, > which most of us don't have. As I mentioned in a previous comment, many of > us have pretty much given up on trying Solaris (for now anyway). But is it > wise for Sun or Sun's engineers to shut the door to those millions of > potential Solaris-wannabes? How about having it on the media, and a part of OpenSolaris? I think that would be easier.<wink> -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
