Hi Robert, I will absolutely hold on to the AR8161 and will be very happy to test things for SmartOS in any way that I can help and contribute to the effort.
On that note, I just ordered a Intel I350-T2 adapter that should be here in a few days to add into my system to get SmartOS up and moving the Project #2 forward. Cheers, Lonnie On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/7/17 15:35 , 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. > > For the interim, others comments around an Intel nic of some kind will > get you moving, I might ask that you hold onto that AR8161 as it may be > possible for us to add support for that and having someone with hardware > will really help. Though I can't promise anything there or any timeline. > > Thanks, > Robert > ------------------------------------------- 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
