> > For those who have been trying to explore a move > from Linux to Solaris, > > "the" most frustrating problem (plse note I didn't > say "one of . . .") is > > the inability to make NIC work under Solaris. > Sun's developers seem > determined to exclude ALL of those drivers for NICs > that are embedded in > AMD-based motherboards. (Strangely enough, most > OpenSolaris-derivatives, > including NexentaOS and BeleniX, have no problem > with those cheap/free but > essentially ubiquitous NICs.) > That's quite a claim to make. I would dearly love to > know on what > evidence you base the claim about Sun's engineers. > Which devices > in particular are you bitter about? > > > This week, CompUSA has Netgear FA311 NIC on sale > for $4.99 (after rebate). > > Listed at the very end of the Solaris HCL, it works > flawlessly with > > Solaris10u2 and SE44. > > This is good to know. I wonder what the shipping > charges outside of the > continental USA are, though. > > BTW, which driver are you using for this card? That's > the sort of info > which will most definitely help others. > > > James C. McPherson > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] >
We run an OpenSuSE/OpenSolaris/OpenOffice study group here in Honolulu and have a dozen or so all sorts of AMD-based PCs in our lab. To the best of my memory, all our Athlon64-based motherboards come with on-board gigabit Marvell NICs. Solaris HCL does show quite a number of on-board Marvell Yukon drivers, but all but one are 32-bit. Unless luck strikes, which never happened to any of our Athlon64 PCs, Solaris means an extra effort to buy and install an external NIC. All things considered, we feel that both Solaris10u2 (JDS 3) and Solaris Express (Gnome 2.14) provide a desktop environment that appear to be best suited as "the" Microsoft Windows replacement for businesses including courts and other government offices. However, intentionally or not, failure to provide drivers for perhaps some of the most prevalent NICs makes it difficult to bring up this subject. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
