Thank's chris, I'll invest in another microSD card and do some testing with other illumos based distros.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com> wrote: > > On 25 Jul 2013, at 02:57, Jarrad Piper <jar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've just received my Gen8 Microserver (G2020 model). Unfortunately the > > NIC's are not detected in OI's installer. It looks like it uses a > Broadcom > > 5720 chip which is not supported. I have tried to use the latest Broadcom > > drivers for Solaris 11 but the NIC's are still not detected. For now I > have > > popped in an older Broadcom Dual Port NIC. Also of note is that KVM > freezes > > when booting a VM with this CPU (even with the suggested fix in the OI > KVM > > Wiki). > > I'm interested in one of these boxes as a fileserver/KVM host as well. > Keep us updated if you make any progress! :-) > > I don't know how recent OI's kernel and drivers are, but there are > suggestions in the Illumos sources that the 5720 is supported. > > The Illumos issue tracker's kind of unclear about this though. > > https://www.illumos.org/issues/3056 > > https://www.illumos.org/issues/390 (which references > https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/6ab6198a2608e8eaad25952200629bdcea12eb51 > ) > > https://www.illumos.org/issues/3812 > > Try an Illumos kernel/driver containing the above change. Using a current > OmniOS or SmartOS build instead of OI might be necessary. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > 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
