On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:45 PM, James Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> 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: >> [...]>>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > Actually they built fine for me, I have a Marvell Syskonnect in my > MacBook Pro and just changing a few environment variables made it all > work fine with SXCE at least, though Indiana should just need the > developer meta packages installed and the same procedure. >
Yes they compile like a breeze. But for typical users this is a trouble. Compiling drivers from source is not something that everyone will find appealing. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
