Friday, August 7, 2009

Ethernet Drivers

So far, ethernet drivers have presented the biggest problems for me and OpenSolaris. My AMD board didn't have a widely supported NIC, but I was able to locate a third party driver that worked. I like OpenSolaris so much, however, that I've switched my workstation at work to OpenSolaris. The box also needed a third party driver for the Marvell Gigabit Ethernet card. I did a little bit of Googling and found that the manufactorers website had a driver that supposedly would work. After 30-45 minutes, I got frustrated and ended up back at the site I got my first driver. He had one that he hadn't testing on my NIC, but he thought would work. It worked immediately with no issues. Go here for any NIC driver needs for OpenSolaris. They know what they're doing.

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