Hi Israel, It is possible that one of Masayuki Murayama's excellent ethernet drivers will work for you: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
However that needs building from source and is a trouble. I'd suggest you to try the BeleniX distro of OpenSolaris from here: http://www.belenix.org/ That distro bundles all of Masayuki's drivers and the nfo one should work for you. It is a single CD download and install with a package repository. Regards, Moinak. On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jacob Israel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since the day Solaris was announced to be available as FOSS, my curiosity > and eagerness sparked an everlasting flame that until now is burning. > > I had to download the multi-giga byte installer of Solaris Express whatever > edition. But after I downloaded the very big installer for about 36 hours, > it just gave me a desperate feeling. I almost wanted to cry, literally, > because I wasn't able to install it on my DELL laptop. There was no free > Virtual Box then. So, I left using Ubuntu because it was only my choice then > because Windoze has never been an option. > > At this time of writing, I have owned three laptops, DELL, HP Pavillion, and > a second hand Sony Vaio. I had an EEEPC too, by the way. But I can't feel > happy with those laptops if I can't install my beloved Solaris on them. All > of those laptops have some hardware components without Solaris drivers (even > from a third-party). > > Then I bought a PC. It's an ACER Aspire. In my country, the Philippines, > laptop and PC retailers doesn't allow me to try the "Solaris Device > Detection Tool" or its web-startable version. But I still bought this Aspire > PC hoping that this box as a whole is compatible with OpenSolaris/Indiana > since this box is almost build out of AMD/nVidia products, and since I know > that Sun and nVidia has a good partnership. > > But the nVidia nForce NIC doesn't have a Solaris driver. I almost cry again, > literally. Aspire is costly and now what? > > I can still use Solaris, thanks to Virtual Box and the new CD-sized > OpenSolaris binary distribution (Indiana?). But when can I be able to run > Solaris on a real box? When? Tell me, when? I'm loosing my hope. I abandoned > the love at first sight that I developed for Ubuntu since when I met Open > Solaris. But now, maybe I should sell all my laptops and buy the expensive > Macbook Pro. At least, OS X is more Solaris like than Vista and Linux is. > > The flame is now loosing some oxygen and now it's fading. > > Just sharing my experience. Thanks for reading. > > -- > _001101110011011100110111_ > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
