[indiana-discuss] Losing my hope...

[James Cornell]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Hi Israel,
>
>    It is possible that one of Masayuki Murayama's excellent ethernet
> drivers will work for you:
> http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
>
> However that needs building from source and is a trouble. I'd suggest
> you to try the BeleniX distro of OpenSolaris from here:
> http://www.belenix.org/
>
> That distro bundles all of Masayuki's drivers and the nfo one should
> work for you. It is a single CD download and install with a package
> repository.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jacob Israel <otanix at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Since the day Solaris was announced to be available as FOSS, my curiosity
>> and eagerness sparked an everlasting flame that until now is burning.
>>
>> I had to download the multi-giga byte installer of Solaris Express whatever
>> edition. But after I downloaded the very big installer for about 36 hours,
>> it just gave me a desperate feeling. I almost wanted to cry, literally,
>> because I wasn't able to install it on my DELL laptop. There was no free
>> Virtual Box then. So, I left using Ubuntu because it was only my choice then
>> because Windoze has never been an option.
>>
>> At this time of writing, I have owned three laptops, DELL, HP Pavillion, and
>> a second hand Sony Vaio. I had an EEEPC too, by the way. But I can't feel
>> happy with those laptops if I can't install my beloved Solaris on them. All
>> of those laptops have some hardware components without Solaris drivers (even
>> from a third-party).
>>
>> Then I bought a PC. It's an ACER Aspire. In my country, the Philippines,
>> laptop and PC retailers doesn't allow me to try the "Solaris Device
>> Detection Tool" or its web-startable version. But I still bought this Aspire
>> PC hoping that this box as a whole is compatible with OpenSolaris/Indiana
>> since this box is almost build out of AMD/nVidia products, and since I know
>> that Sun and nVidia has a good partnership.
>>
>> But the nVidia nForce NIC doesn't have a Solaris driver. I almost cry again,
>> literally. Aspire is costly and now what?
>>
>> I can still use Solaris, thanks to Virtual Box and the new CD-sized
>> OpenSolaris binary distribution (Indiana?). But when can I be able to run
>> Solaris on a real box? When? Tell me, when? I'm loosing my hope. I abandoned
>> the love at first sight that I developed for Ubuntu since when I met Open
>> Solaris. But now, maybe I should sell all my laptops and buy the expensive
>> Macbook Pro. At least, OS X is more Solaris like than Vista and Linux is.
>>
>> The flame is now loosing some oxygen and now it's fading.
>>
>> Just sharing my experience. Thanks for reading.
>>
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Actually they built fine for me, I have a Marvell Syskonnect in my
MacBook Pro and just changing a few environment variables made it all
work fine with SXCE at least, though Indiana should just need the
developer meta packages installed and the same procedure.

James