Yea, I think that you are correct, Ian. I think that I'll grab one and do just that approach.
Cheers, Lonnie On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Ian Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/11/17 12:35, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > >> 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. >> >> Stick an Intel NIC in the box and all will be well. > > -- > Ian. > ------------------------------------------- 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
