Greetings All, As a short test to play around a bit, I just tried to boot up the latest SmartOS on my AMD 64-bit HP Pavilion A7-1461 PC that I have been running Ubuntu 16.04 and although it does boot up reasonably well, but I found that it does not recognize my network cards "Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" and "Broadcom Limited BCM43228 802.11 a/b/g/n" wireless.
The SmarOS Hardware Requirements pointed me over to http://illumos.org/hcl/ and sure enough, the Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 Gigabit Ethernet is supported, but not the Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet. The Broadcom Limited BCM43228 is not even on the list and I guess that is due to it being wireless. Also looked at Freenic : http://freenicdrivers.la.coocan.jp/ but no luck either. Had the same problems when booting up OpenIndiana Hipster recently as well. For this particular 2nd project, I'm just playing with building up a small footprint non-clustering Type-1 Hypervisor with an X-Server out of SmartOS to take advantage of all of the solid and stability features that come from the Illumos (Solaris) heritage. I know that there are a number of other Type-1 (and Type-2) Hypervisors out there, but I just thought that it would be nice to see one based on SmartOS, perhaps. Maybe I need to locate someone that has move in-depth knowledge, and expertise, with SmartOS to get this initial part moving along as well as to keep digging into it myself as I will get it going somehow. Anyway, guess that it is back to the drawing board for now. Cheers and have a great night, all. Lonnie ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
