Hi Infact it's not rubbish. Please search the archives. This problem is also evident on Linux and *BSD too.
I have an Asus M2NPV board here with nvidia chipset. I had several of same problems that you had. A synopsis is as follows: 1. The NIC flaps (another user & me had same issue - bad switch. Please search the archives). 2. The NIC has MAC address in reverse. I have put the right address in hostname.nge0. It won't connect without this fix. 3. The PCI ID of the sata chip is not in database. As a result HDD is being driven by ata rather than nv_sata driver. No problems apart from loss of hot plug functionality (which I don't use). 4. The sound chip just sucks. Really. It fights for the IRQ with the NIC driver. Sometimes it just causes the NIC to freeze. No data will go through. The solution is to re-plumb the interface. 5. If I boot in windows, the NIC will NOT come up. It just won't connect. The solution is to either do a proper cold boot OR just go into NIC netboot PROM for a second or two. That resets it nicely. The windows drivers work (??) right but then I don't believe that specs are open source. I also tried Masa-san's nfe driver. It works right, as long as I don't put the switch in the loop. But I don't have that luxury. Lesson: Stay away from cheap HW. It causes more headache. I've wasted enough time on this mobo that the better one would have saved me a lot of money and anguish. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
