[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>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 >
On ieee1275 / OBP (i.e. on sparc) you can fake those id's and therefore avoid a kernel-recompile. (using nvedit and a script etc.) I once did that with an unsupported "Soundblaster Live!" as well as with a cmd649 based ide-controller - all on an Ultra5 back then. Are you on sparc? Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
