Hi Pasi, Hmm, yes you have a point there. Other than insert additional LAN card in one of the expansion slots, are there any workarounds to enable the onboard NIC? Or I should just wait for the stable/next release of OpenIndiana?
Thanks! Best regards, Okky Hendriansyah On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 02:30:31PM +0700, Okky Hendriansyah wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've been monitoring this mailing list since day one, and I kept getting > > interested with OpenIndiana. Tried to install it on my old machine, most > of > > the devices were detected and the system running smoothly. So I think > it's > > about time I move to a younger, stronger system. > > > > I just recently build a new rig for mostly virtualization lab and > storage. > > It's a Sandy Bridge platform, with Intel motherboard (Intel DH67GD). > Since > > it has an onboard Intel PRO Gigabit NIC (Intel 82579V), I was very > confident > > it wouldn't have any installation issue or performance with OpenIndiana. > It > > turned out that there are some missing drivers when I ran Driver Utility > > during Live DVD of OpenIndiana oi_148. For my surprise, one of the > missing > > drivers is the onboard NIC! So I cancelled the installation and tried > other > > distro and operating system to make sure that it wasn't a hardware defect > > issue. > > > > Both OpenSolaris 2009.06 Live CD and Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD were also > having > > the same issue. Furthermore I tried to install it with Windows 7, install > > its NIC drivers from Intel and whoila the NIC appeared and worked > > flawlessly. I also tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 and it successfully > detect > > the adapter. Are there any missing steps that I overlooked on installing > > OpenIndiana? Shouldn't Intel NIC drivers support in OpenIndiana came out > of > > the box right from its Live DVD session? Tonight I will try to install it > > with Solaris 11 Express and see if it recognizes the NIC. > > > > Are there any output from a command that I should put in here for further > > investigation? > > > > Sandy Bridge platform was just released (around one month ago), so it's not > that weird oi_148 doesn't yet have the nic driver.. > > -- Pasi > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
