[ug-hosug] A few questions.

[Moinak Ghosh]

Shishir Pandey wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just started off with opensolaris recently, got it installed on my 
> laptop (acer aspire 5050)
> with ease. I am using solaris exp. dev ed. snv 55b ( think that translates
> to nevada build 55).
>
> I observed the following:
> a) It does not detect my atheros card. This I am sure has to be in 
> some faq, but where ?

   do this:
   ifconfig -a plumb
   ifconfig -a

   What is the output you get ?

> b) I get no sound. Any faq ?

   You can download and install the OSS drivers from:
   http://www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi

   But before doing so please post the output of
   /usr/X11/bin/scanpci

> c) I have amd turion 64 but all binaries on my install seem to be 32 
> bit. why ?

   Solaris always operates in mixed mode. That is the kernel will be 
64Bit but
   most of the user utilities and applications will be 32bit except for 
some stuff.
   Generally not all apps benefit by being blindly compiled to 64bit. 
The 64bit
   kernel transparently supports both 32bit and 64bit applications. To 
see what
   more your system is running, execute:

   isainfo -v

>
> What I found really weird was that the first time I installed 
> opensolaris it happily detected
> my wifi, and sound card but on second install it doesn't. In between 
> the two installs I had
> installed linux on it.

   Really weird. Linux won't have any effect. It can happily multiboot 
with Windows and
   Linux.

>
> Has anyone tried compiling clisp on their solaris machines ?

   Are you getting a compile error ?

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> TIA,
> Shishir
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