On 9/9/06, Andrei Dorofeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another option is to use the nge (nVidia gigabit ethernet) driver. Many Socket 939 ASUS motherboards have these adapters as part of nForce4 chipset. I've had great success with ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe in particular in my home zfs file server. I just had to add new entry to /etc/driver_aliases to make it recognized. - Andrei
i'm only surprised that you have to add driver aliases because my sun ultra 20 uses the same chipset. and of course works out of the box. It would be nice if we could have some forward momentum out of this thread, perhaps a project to get all these drivers into opensolaris or at least have a place on the web site where people can give hints and tips on how to make various cards work, what driver to use, what aliaes to add, how many small animals to sacrifice in what phase of the moon. I would love not to have to compile my own driver for quad ethernet card that uses the tu driver. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com
On 9/9/06, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You may need to add a driver alias or two. > > > > Casper > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > > I went back to the Solaris HCL, which shows 4 Yukon chipsets but only one, 88E8001, has both 32-bit and 64-bit drivers. So I managed to locate an Athlon64 machine (Shuttle XPC SN95G5) which I know uses the same Marvell chipset. Strangely, no luck. Then I realized (from Novell SuSE) that it was labeled as something else, and thus was recognized by Solaris. > > Looks like the problem is more serious than I thought (i.e., deeper than just the driver availability issue). Of course there is no malice on the part of Sun's engineers. You/They are simply too good to be smeared by an inadvertent semi-jest comment. (For those sun.com email address owners who sent me complaints off-line, the only thing I can say is, I am wholeheartedly moved. Sun will rise high, AGAIN!) > > For the time being, the best short-term solution seems to be the $4.99 Netgear FA311 card. But as James mentioned, shipping cost out of the continental US can wipe out the price advantage. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
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