[install-discuss] Ethernet & compiler Catch-22 on snv_86_rc

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How do I get  a working compiler w/o having a working ethernet connection?    Or without a working compiler, how can I get an ethernet driver for the Nvidia GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M so I can make ethernet work?
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> Installing Studio 12 from CD doesn't install the standard C headers which leaves me no way to compile the nfo driver for the Nvidia ethernet chipset.  Compiling on U5 produces relocation errors when I move the object  to snv_86.
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> Why were  the BSD license Murayama  drivers  not included?  They are needed by quite a few laptops.
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> In any event, there needs to be a sneaker net way install new device drivers.  Depending on a working ethernet connection doesn't work very well.

   Pkg being so network entangled does not yet have an on-disk package
   so your are stuck. Though this may change in future.

   For now you can get pre-compiled Masayuki-san's driver bundle in SVR4
   package format from here:
   http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/scorched_3d_and_masayuki_san

   To my understanding pkg.opensolaris.org is not really a community
   maintained software repo. The packages here are SUN supported and
   there is quite a bit of process in getting software there including ARC
   and legal processes. It takes time. There are folks in SUN working on
   getting Masayuki-san's drivers into OpenSolaris.

Regards,
Moinak.

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> Very puzzled,
> Reg
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