[ug-bosug] Solaris on a laptop?

[Moinak Ghosh]

USM Bish wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 05:47:48PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
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> Moinak, is  there an  OpenSolaris HCL list,  like the  one for
> Solaris 10 out here :
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/views/all_laptops_all_results.page1.html
>   

   The BigAdmin HCL includes both Solaris 10 and Solaris Express
   (OpenSolaris).

> As per Nexenta  docs, some Solaris 10 drivers are  not part of
> OpenSolaris, and  what makes  it more  confusing is  that some
> Nexenta  drivers  (hacked  from  GNU/Linux) are  not  part  of
> OpenSolaris too.
>   

   Some of the Solaris 10 drivers are third party licensed and proprietary.
   SUN does not own them and cannot opensource them.

   Um I do not think Linux drivers can be included in OpenSolaris because
   GPL and CDDL are incompatible. I guess they are including CDDL/
   BSD licensed drivers ported to OpenSolaris by others like Masayuki
   Murayama, Garret D'Amore etc. I do the same for BeleniX.

> Recently, I  got myself an  HP Compaq nx6115. (As  per Solaris
> HCL,  the  nx6215  id  supported,  so  I  thought  nx6115  its
> immediate predecessor should). I ran the online jnlp detection
> program linked by you above both in Win XP and Linux (Fedora).
> Except for the  Braodcom WLAN, and two other  items related to
> the ac97, all other drivers were available.
>   

   Broadcom WLAN can be made to work using ndiswrapper ported to
   OpenSolaris and available from the Laptop Community page.

> However, when  I plonked  in a  live CD,  I could  not proceed
> beyond the  first few  seconds. I  tried with  Solaris Exprees
> (build 56), Belenix  and Nexenta. All three  give the folowing
> error, which keeps  on scrolling the screen  up, stopping only
> with  physical power  off:  "NOTICE: lp0:  too many  interrupt
> requests". I could never get around this problem ... could not
> get much help from googling too.
>   

   Two options:

   * Have you tried the non-ACPI boot ?
   * You can also try disabling Legacy USB Support in the Bios if there
      is such an option.

> The HP Compaq nx6115 otherwise is quite a modern machine, with
> an AMD Turion 64 bit 1.6 gHz processor. Both Fedora and Win XP
> runs on it, with all components working.
>
> At the  present stage, I would  suggest to resort to  only one
> method - push in a live OpenSolaris distro and see.
>   

   True :) You can't be sure unless you have booted it.

Regards,
Moinak.

> Bish
>
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