I recently upgraded my motherboard to a supermicro x8sil. There are a few problems, using the 2009.06 release the video drivers work fine with the live cd but after install X cannot start. This can be solved either by using the VESA driver or by going upto the latest version (currently 132). The other more major problem is with the NIC. There are two Intel 82574L NIC's on-board. After boot the network connection will work for a variable amount of time before the NIC's go down. Neither NWAM or ifconfig reports anything amiss when this happens, the only way to tell is by reading the /var/adm/message log file. The log will contain:
Feb 12 20:41:35 HostName e1000g: [ID 801725 kern.warning] WARNING: pciex808 6,10d3 - e1000g[0] : Invalid NVM checksum. Please contact the vendor to update t he NVM. Feb 12 20:41:35 HostName e1000g: [ID 801725 kern.warning] WARNING: pciex808 6,10d3 - e1000g[0] : Adapter initialization failed Feb 12 20:41:35 HostName e1000g: [ID 801725 kern.warning] WARNING: pciex808 6,10d3 - e1000g[0] : Reset failed Once this happens you cannot use ifconfig to down / up the adapter and the network will be completely down. There have been reports of a very similar error occurring with various flavors of Linux, one possible solution is to rebuild the driver with a few lines of code commented out, this has not been verified. Any possible pointers would be appreciated. Thanks Al -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
