[osol-discuss] Errror in OpenSolaris Device Detection Tool

[James C. McPherson]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 03/03/07, James C. McPherson <James.McPherson at sun.com> wrote:
>> Gary Gendel wrote:
>> > I was surprised to find that the ddtool said everything except my modem
>> > was supported on my laptop. Then I looked further... The broadcom
>> > wireless a/b/g miniPCI card was supported by the "aac" driver. Isn't 
>> that
>> > a driver for a RAID disk controller?
>>
>> Yup
>>
>> > Sounds like the ddtool needs a little more "smarts" to ferret out
>> > conflicting information.
>>
>> I agree totally. I've got a cheapie dual-port pci serial card which
>> self-identifies with a pci compatible property of
>>
>> pci9710,9835.1000.12.1
> 
> The question is, why does it do that? What is the intent of the
> dual-port pci serial card that makes it list that PCI ID?


/me pages in from off-site storage ....


That is a darned good question. I have absolutely no idea.

I paid a grab total of about RMB25 (=~ AUD4) for it during
my trip to Beijing last year and I'd really like to get it
working properly. Don't currently have the time to dive in
and debug it though.



cheers,
James C. McPherson
--
Solaris kernel software engineer
Sun Microsystems