W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
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.)
> James McPherson wrote:
> 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?
...
BTW, which driver are you using for this card? That's the sort of info
which will most definitely help others.
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.
Did you check the SysKonnect website? They're the company
that actually provides the drivers (SK*) which are presently
integrated with Solaris.
While I was checking their site I got this link
http://www.syskonnect.de/e_en/support/driver_searchresults.html?navanchor=&term=bs.SUN_Solaris+produkt.SK-9843V2.0&produkt=produkt.SK-9843V2.0&typ=&system=bs.SUN_Solaris
which does have a link to the 64bit x64 driver "skge"
I use this driver myself, with a Gigabyte K8NS-Pro motherboard.
It really was not hard to find.
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.
That's a bit of a back down from your previous assertion of
malice on the part of Sun's engineers.
If you're going to make claims like you did earlier, provide the
evidence to back it up or don't make the assertion.
James C. McPherson
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