Ian, do you have a suggestion as to which PCI card would be best? I know that there are many out there. Just gathering input to maximize compatibility.
Thanks, Lopnnie On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
