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: > >> 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 >> >> >> > > > > 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.
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