[laptop-discuss] Toshiba Satellite Pro with NOT WORKING NIC drivers ...

[Garrett D'Amore]

Okay, well, without more information about *what* failed, we might not 
be able to help very much.

I certainly believe that the onboard NIC on this system *should* have 
worked. Its possible that later builds (b75 is the latest) would have 
worked.

We are trying to make these things just work out of the box. The Toshiba 
Tecra's have e1000g devices which Just Work. I have an older Satellite 
unit which has an rtls nic on it, and it also Just Works.

-- Garrett

William Papolis wrote:
> Neal,
>
> A few additional points ...
>
> 1. I was installing OpenSolaris Developer Edition 2007-09
> 2. I did an install and booted to the OS
> 3. Basically I noticed some errors on boot related to devices not getting detected, then later there were warnings. Sorry, I am going by memory now, and I don't remember the exact messages. In the future I can provide additional info if I try to re-install. Hopefully the info supplied above is sufficient.
>
> At this point networking was down, and I didn't feel like struggling with it any further. I have enough Solaris experience that I could likely fix this, if it's possible, but I was expecting to NOT have to go through that hassle. Especially when Indiana is coming out in a couple of weeks, and that build includes many additional things I want. (ZFS boot partition yada, yada)
>
> Plus, I remember in my company we used to keep a box of 3COM905b's if we were building Solaris instead of having to go through the hassle of adding additional drivers during install.  It saved a ton of hassle.
>
> Bill
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