Re: [osol-discuss] enable wireless device in Solaris

2008-05-20 Thread Jerry Tan
you can run network-admin, a nice GUI to setup network, including WIFI. > I have installed Solaris Indiana recently. The device driver utility > detects Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Ethernet card but shows a message > that the driver is missing. > It detects intel pro wireless with no problems. > Bu

[osol-discuss] enable wireless device in Solaris

2008-05-20 Thread prabit mishra
I have installed Solaris Indiana recently. The device driver utility detects Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Ethernet card but shows a message that the driver is missing. It detects intel pro wireless with no problems. But the wireless is disabled by default. How to enable it??? -- Prabit Mishra, SUN Ca

Re: [osol-discuss] Help building a File server

2008-05-20 Thread Lu Baolu
It's definitely possible. The easiest way is to use the Indiana LiveCD. Also, it's possible to run a minimal solaris on a USB stick. The glancing procedures are: 1. make a usf filesystem on the stick 2. dump the cpio image from bfu archive 3. copy some critical files 4. install grub, set the boo

[osol-discuss] screen resolution problem with OpenSolaris 2008.05 on VirtualBox 1.6

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Shannon
I spent several hours trying to get OpenSolaris 2008.05 (final version) to work with a screen resolution larger than 1024x768 when running under VirtualBox 1.6, but no luck. I installed the VirtualBox guest additions, but they didn't help. I followed the instructions in the Virtual Box manual to

Re: [osol-discuss] Location of com.sun.trustedsolaris.*

2008-05-20 Thread Ian Collins
arpit wrote: > Hi to all, > I am new to solaris. > I am working on the problem of WBEM service in Solaris 9/07, and in that I am > not able to find out com.sun.trustedsolaris jar file... > > This isn't an appropriate place to ask Solaris 9 questions, try your support channel or Usenet. Ian _

[osol-discuss] Location of com.sun.trustedsolaris.*

2008-05-20 Thread arpit
Hi to all, I am new to solaris. I am working on the problem of WBEM service in Solaris 9/07, and in that I am not able to find out com.sun.trustedsolaris jar file... Can you plz tell me, the location of com.sun.trustedsolaris.* ? Which jar should I include? Thanks in advance... Arpit M Patel

Re: [osol-discuss] Help building a File server

2008-05-20 Thread Justin Gombos
* Brandon High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-19 19:30]: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:24 PM, vijay Rajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm planning to install the OS from a USB stick to a USB stick > > !!. Is this possible?. If so, can you give me some pointers. > > I used a device similar to thi

[osol-discuss] Bad CD? :(

2008-05-20 Thread Elwood Edwards
It appears the cd I just received in the mail for OS is bad :( I can boot the LiveCD to the desktop but then the drive just spins forever and my nouse freezes. I guess one day I'll try another iso download. E; This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Can we have an update on SXCE Build 89 availability?

2008-05-20 Thread Nick Briggs
Guess I'll answer my own question: build 89 seems to be available now over at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Can we have an update on SXCE Build 89 availability?

2008-05-20 Thread Nick Briggs
Last note was that it was expected on 5/19. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit!

2008-05-20 Thread Reggie
I meant /usr/sfw/bin This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit!

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Reggie wrote: > Does this work in latest open solaris release 2008.5? I couldn't get it to > work because there is no gcc or flex installed in /usr/local/bin. gcc & flex are available from the repository, just didn't fit on the LiveCD. Run: pfexec pkg install gcc-dev SUNWflexlex -- -Ala

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit!

2008-05-20 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Reggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this work in latest open solaris release 2008.5? I couldn't get it to > work because there is no gcc or flex installed in /usr/local/bin. Worked fine for me. (For a limited set of "work" that doesn't include the high rate

[osol-discuss] Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit!

2008-05-20 Thread Reggie
Does this work in latest open solaris release 2008.5? I couldn't get it to work because there is no gcc or flex installed in /usr/local/bin. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Guide

2008-05-20 Thread Raju Uppalapati
Does a doc like http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php/Main_Page exist for OpenSolaris? It it does not .. is there any plan to create one? It will help newbies like me to get started with OpenSolaris. _raju This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] HELP/ADVICE Needed

2008-05-20 Thread madhu mulukutla
I have a Solaris Environment and Informix database with Containers The server /Informix DB is slow. My question is Does Dtrace have any better tools for monitoring or using UNIX commands with scripts for I/O monitoring/ Top 10 commands,Idle Time, is better I am new to this blog and Dtrace.

[osol-discuss] Question regarding RAM.....

2008-05-20 Thread Elwood Edwards
My Compaq Presario 2170us laptop has 512Meg RAM; 128K of that memory is specified in BIOS for the built-in video card. Will I have sufficent memory to run OS? Thanks! :) El This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing li

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread UNIX admin
> It was one of the core goals of the entire program > for OpenSolaris -- > going back to school. :) This is one of the Sun > programs that emerged > recently: > http://developers.sun.com/students/community/map.jsp > Again, as > I said earlier, Sun is making the investment, so we > in the commun

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a difference between OpenSolaris and

2008-05-20 Thread Fat Ted
> OpenSolaris does not support sparse zones Or more accurately, completely changes (breaks!) how zones are built, removing the tried and tested and industry celebrated zone system that is in vanilla Solaris. This means that anyone who has been building zones / zone automation scripts have had

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Jim Grisanzio
UNIX admin wrote: >> Yep. University programs started in China almost >> immediately after >> OpenSolaris was launched (but no one in the west >> noticed), and then the >> India team got involved, and now Sun corporate is >> funding edu programs >> globally. It's a big deal, actually, and involv

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Octave Orgeron wrote: > Hi, > > Hopefully, we'll see a positive trend in the education sector. That's how > we'll build out our community. Trying to persuade the Linux crowd to defect > is highly unlikely. > > From what I've seen in India and China, I'm *very* confident that OpenSolaris wi

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: > Ok, so how much code are Linus & Co. are willing to put up in open ? Hell, I > consider it as a black hole - stuff goes in but doesn't come out. Ask the > *BSD guys. They take stuff and make changes GPL only. As a result the > original contributors are left with a ver

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Mario Goebbels
> Good point! > > In our current world, OSS is becoming an ecosystem. > We should not support people who do not allow us to > take their > code also in our projects. It's twofold. On one side, you could expect that any changes made are just optimizations, rather small and easy to rewrite under

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread James Carlson
Akhilesh Mritunjai writes: > > Alex Leverington writes: > > This is much the same thing. It's open source. Get > > over it. If > > someone wants to use it, that's good. If they're > > willing to talk with > > the people who invented it, then that's *great*. > > Riiight... that's why we usually

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread UNIX admin
> Yep. University programs started in China almost > immediately after > OpenSolaris was launched (but no one in the west > noticed), and then the > India team got involved, and now Sun corporate is > funding edu programs > globally. It's a big deal, actually, and involves all > of the various S

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread UNIX admin
> Wow. You sound a little bitter. :) Perhaps. > btrfs does sound > promising though. > I have no doubt Linux will have something similar > eventually should > there be demand for it. There is a very bitter difference between "will have" and "has", isn't there? This message posted from opens

[osol-discuss] General question on ressources and system requirements

2008-05-20 Thread Benjamin Krüger
Hello everybody! I have just made my first steps on Solaris, building up a Server on a Fire 880. Think solaris is fun and a good OS. My Question regards an Install on an x86 Laptop, namely a Thinkpad x30. CPU 1.2 GHz pIII / 1024MB Ram (PC133)/ 80 GB HDD / IPW2200 /Bluetooth(USB), IRDA,Lan,Mode

Re: [osol-discuss] Need advice to select clustering OS

2008-05-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Roberto carabajal wrote: > Hello: > > I am new to OpenSolaris.Please, I apologize if my questions are too primitive > for advanced users. > Before hearing about OpenSolatis I had the idea to use 16 surplus Sun Sparc > 10 Stations to implement a Mosix cluster. I would appreci

[osol-discuss] Need advice to select clustering OS

2008-05-20 Thread Roberto carabajal
Hello: I am new to OpenSolaris.Please, I apologize if my questions are too primitive for advanced users. Before hearing about OpenSolatis I had the idea to use 16 surplus Sun Sparc 10 Stations to implement a Mosix cluster. I would appreciate advice about using these machines to built clusters.

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, Hopefully, we'll see a positive trend in the education sector. That's how we'll build out our community. Trying to persuade the Linux crowd to defect is highly unlikely. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.o

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
NiuLin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! > I'm sorry I have missed some information in my original post, I'm writing > the module for Solaris 8, I checked the header files of Solaris 8 but > cannot find vnodetopath. Which function can I use on Solaris 8? In kernel getcwd() has been added in S

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Akhilesh Mritunjai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Riiight... that's why we usually see people putting stuff in public domain - > no ? or in BSD - no ? > > Ok, so how much code are Linus & Co. are willing to put up in open ? Hell, I > consider it as a black hole - stuff goes in but doesn't come ou

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008, NiuLin wrote: > Thanks! > I'm sorry I have missed some information in my original post, I'm writing > the module for Solaris 8, I checked the header files of Solaris 8 but > cannot find vnodetopath. Which function can I use on Solaris 8? Please ask Sun Developer support for

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Tirthankar
If you want to read about the Sun India University program Sun India University Program http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/ Thanks, Tirthankar This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread NiuLin
Thanks! I'm sorry I have missed some information in my original post, I'm writing the module for Solaris 8, I checked the header files of Solaris 8 but cannot find vnodetopath. Which function can I use on Solaris 8? 2008/5/20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 20 May 2008, NiuLin wrote: > > Thanks

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris cluster & opensolaris2008.05 libDtTerm issue

2008-05-20 Thread Tirthankar
As a workaround, you could try using pconsole - which is a complete free tool doing similar things like SUNWccon. You can get it from http://www.heiho.net/pconsole/index.html SUNWccon can't work currently on OpenSolaris 2008.05 becuase it uses Motif which is NOT part of OpenSolaris 2008.05 (it

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
> On May 18, 2008, at 14:01, Mario Goebbels wrote: > ZFS on Linux on > humper would actually be very interesting to many of > them. I think > that's good for Sun. Of course, ZFS on Linux on Umm, how many Linux shops buy support and/or HW from Sun ? It it's a Linux shop money is (in order)

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008, NiuLin wrote: > Thanks a lot for your quick reply! Actually, I have found this code already, > but as I know, dogetcwd is not exported by the kernel (not found in the > include files). How can I call this function? #include for vnodetopath(). FrankH. > > 2008/5/20 <[EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread NiuLin
Thanks a lot for your quick reply! Actually, I have found this code already, but as I know, dogetcwd is not exported by the kernel (not found in the include files). How can I call this function? 2008/5/20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 20 May 2008, NiuLin wrote: > > Hello everyone: >> When I am

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008, NiuLin wrote: > Hello everyone: > When I am programming a kernel module for Solaris, I encountered one > problem: I cannot get the the absolute path for the current working > directory of the current process. > > In user space, we can do this by calling getcwd(), but this func

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
> Alex Leverington writes: > This is much the same thing. It's open source. Get > over it. If > someone wants to use it, that's good. If they're > willing to talk with > the people who invented it, then that's *great*. Riiight... that's why we usually see people putting stuff in public domain

[osol-discuss] How to get current working directory of the current process in the kernel

2008-05-20 Thread NiuLin
Hello everyone: When I am programming a kernel module for Solaris, I encountered one problem: I cannot get the the absolute path for the current working directory of the current process. In user space, we can do this by calling getcwd(), but this function does not take kernel address as parameter

Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Alex Leverington wrote: > On May 19, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: > > >> It would be better for Sun to put more effort around building our >> community. The best place for Sun to start is to target colleges, >> universities, start-ups, and the embedded consumer market. Doing >>