> @mdmarco > > I personally suspect that most of the people who run > any kind of Solaris x86 in production are using the > Intel gigabit chipset a.k.a. the e1000g chipset, > which was also the chipset that came with a lot of > Sun's Opteron servers back in the day. The best way > to get a rapid solution to the problem would be to > find someone who is a wizard at debugging problems > with Solaris network card drivers (I'm thinking > Garret D'Amore, but if you can think of someone else, > let me know) and then maybe send them a motherboard > with one of these buggy chipsets in it and let them > hack on it in their free time. > > The OpenBSD and NetBSD projects get hardware > donations all the time, where the main purpose of the > hardware donation is to get some driver issue > resolved on some specific piece of hardware. The > OpenSolaris project would probably benefit if we > adopted some of these same customs that have proven > to be successful for the BSD's.
I agree and would send hardware to troubleshoot a unique problem but this is a common problem on all RTL8111/8168b chipset. The hardware is plentiful the problem is common to all hardware on that chipset. Having access to it should not be the problem. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
