I have not been able to get Solaris 10 x86 to "see" my NICs. I have an Intel board with a 10/100 adapter and a PCI Linksys LNE100TX adapter plugged in. I tried Sun's instructions for loading adapters and it is as if they are not there.
I checked the HCL and I don't see any NIC which is available locally.
Has anyone loaded Sol 10 on an x86 with an adapter I can purchase locally? Microcenter, CompUSA or Best Buy?
Thank You
Thank you Blaise,
I was able to get the on board nic recognized by using the FAQ you provided. However, I am not going to persue Solaris 10 until Sun gets serious about the x86 platform. Solaris is where Linux was 8 years ago as far as ease of installation and administration is concerned. Sun is first a hardware company; their job is to sell hardware. The only reason they are open sourcing Solaris is because of Linux competition. They hope you will buy Solaris on their hardware and use their services to get this complicated OS running properly.
Thanks again.
Bill
All I can say is that we'd love to have your feedback on how to make Solaris better, preferably constructive feedback. In this case, it would be helpful to know what you did to make your NIC work so that we can support it out of the box.
(Yes, that's right, I work for Sun.)
Blaise
> I was able to get the on board nic recognized by
> using the FAQ you provided. However, I am not going
> to persue Solaris 10 until Sun gets serious about the
> x86 platform. Solaris is where Linux was 8 years ago
> as far as ease of installation and administration is
> concerned.
> Sun is first a hardware company; their job
> is to sell hardware. The only reason they are open
> sourcing Solaris is because of Linux competition.
> They hope you will buy Solaris on their hardware and
> d use their services to get this complicated OS
> running properly.
Bill,
I assure you that the Solaris10 installation is nothing inferior to any linux installation back in 1997 and think Sun is pretty serious about x86. Solaris10 x86 hardware support is definitely needs improvement but I have quite a number of non-Sun x86 boxes running Solaris 10 (for the matter, 7 & 8 also). I do not think Solaris is any more difficult to administer than Linux (btw, which linux? Redhat has a totally different administration interface than Debian and Mandrake). Yes, it's different from whatever Linux and you have to learn it -- like everything else.
OTOH, I definitely love linux to have the stability it had 8 years ago. Some of my RH9/FC2/FC3 boxes occassionally just freezes without any error message and there is still no telling what went wrong. Fortunately, these are boxes that can afford to go down.
Also, I do not think opensourcing Solaris is any less business oriented than Sun wanting to profit from it and do not see any problem with that. I guess you can liken it to the Fedora Core project.
PS. I do NOT work for Sun.
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WY
I'm sorry I got your name wrong. Blaises.
If Sun were serious about x86 I would not have to hack the hardware database to tell Solaris to load a driver so that my NIC would be recognized. You ask for constructive criticism so here it is:
I was attracted to Sol 10 because of the 10 moves ahead campaign. I really wanted to see if the hype were true, but I struggled just getting the OS up and running. Was it really worth my time? I don't know.
Want some constructive criticism? Find the German guy who put Linux on one disk which boots on most computers and never touchs their hard drives. Its called Knoppix. Get Solaris to boot from a CD like Knoppix and maybe more people will try it.
Bill
Wy, Perhaps Solaris is not more difficult to administer than Linux, but it simply does not have the hardware support that Linux has. And Linux does not have the hareware support that Microsoft has. The lack of hardware support makes it harder to load Solaris on an x86 platform and become familiar with it as you have. I am not a Linux partisan, I am an MCSE who simply wants to expand his OS horizons.
Bill
I installed Solaris 10 x86 on a HP Compaq D530 PC and it recognized everything right out of the box.
It even installed a driver for the Qlogic 2200 card I installed.
Is it Sun's Responsibility or the manufacturer's responsibility to write drivers for x86 hardware? Red Hat, Suse, etc certainly aren't writing drivers for x86 hardware for Linux.
Brian Elfert
