>That's another thing that is annoying about Solaris - the fact that for some 
>cards the drivers are
 there all along, but because Solaris doesn't have the correct driveralias 
entries it won't attach 
to the card "out of the box".

But there's no way that can be helped; I'm sure Linux suffers a similar
issue.

The driver must have some knowledge about which PCI ids to attach to;
in some OSes this is hardcoded in the source and a recompile is needed;
in other it requires adding something to a table.

This is *not* a process which can be automated; attaching a driver to
an incorrect device easily leads to panics or hangs.


Casper
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