[indiana-discuss] Indiana on VirtualBox

[Bart Smaalders]

Bob Palowoda wrote:
>> * Darren Kenny (Darren.Kenny at Sun.COM) wrote:
>>> What are the chances of getting some of these
>> opensource network drivers
>>> available on the LiveCD?
>>>
>>> We really should try to make as much as possible
>> work out of the box.
>>
>> Right.  People are working on it (getting network
>> drivers that work with
>> virtualbox put on the liveCD).
>>
> 
>  Do these people have names are are they part of some secret open source project?
> 
> ---Bob

The issues are legal since the PCNet driver in Nevada was written
w/ access to proprietary information.  Once various lawyers, directors
and others in the two companies involved come to a agreement,
David Comay or myself will edit the following few lines:

# BEGIN NON-REDISTRIBUTABLE
# add driver name=pcn alias=pci1022,2000 alias=pci103c,104c
drop kernel/drv/amd64/pcn
drop kernel/drv/pcn
drop kernel/drv/pcn.conf
# END NON-REDISTRIBUTABLE


that are in src/util/distro-import/i386/SUNWos86r
in the IPS gate so that the next import of this package into the IPS
repository will contain the pcn driver.

There is no secret cabal. There is no plot.  There's just
a bunch of people trying to get the software out to you
w/o violating the agreements by which that software
was constructed.  Sometimes that involves legal issues,
and that takes longer than _everyone_ likes.   As much as
we like to be open, sending out the names of the directors
and lawyers isn't likely to accelerate matters, so just relax -
or just grab a copy of the files from a Nevada dvd and put
them on your Indiana system - that's what I did.

- Bart

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