On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:17 PM, John Brewer <[email protected]>wrote:

> 1. Run them under VirtualBox or Zones, but if you go with Solaris 10 as a
> global running on the hardware, make sure you run the updatemanger or
> smpatch update with your sunsovle.sun.com account then you should be able
> to run any OS supported w. VirtualBox (I'm running 2.1) then 2008.11,
> snv_104.
>
> 2. Another consideration is from a HW device support, your best chance is
> with snv_b105 note has less in snv_b104 is supported with a view exceptions
> when comparted with 2008.11 (Graphical desktop look great), device support
> that is not in snv_b105 for example:
> # diff driver_aliases2008.11_sorted driver_aliases_snv_b105_sorted |grep
> '<'
> < audioixp "pci1002,4341"
> < bnx "pci14e4,1639"
> < bnx "pci14e4,163a"
> < qlc "pciex1077,2532"
> < xnbo "xnb"
> # diff driver_aliases2008.11_sorted driver_aliases_snv_b104_sorted |grep
> '<'
> < audioixp "pci1002,4341"
> < bnx "pci14e4,1639"
> < bnx "pci14e4,163a"
> < iwh "pciex8086,4232"
> < iwh "pciex8086,4235"
> < qlc "pciex1077,2532"
> < xnbo "xnb"
>

Most likely this is in fact an issue with the driver_aliases file itself.
You can test is easily enough by adding the line to /etc/driver_aliases.
The kernel should be the same between all distros based on the same kernel
release.

Note: Make a backup of the file first!




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