[OpenIndiana-discuss] Missing Intel NIC Driver on OpenIndiana oi_148

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 02:30:31PM +0700, Okky Hendriansyah wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been monitoring this mailing list since day one, and I kept getting
> interested with OpenIndiana. Tried to install it on my old machine, most of
> the devices were detected and the system running smoothly. So I think it's
> about time I move to a younger, stronger system.
> 
> I just recently build a new rig for mostly virtualization lab and storage.
> It's a Sandy Bridge platform, with Intel motherboard (Intel DH67GD). Since
> it has an onboard Intel PRO Gigabit NIC (Intel 82579V), I was very confident
> it wouldn't have any installation issue or performance with OpenIndiana. It
> turned out that there are some missing drivers when I ran Driver Utility
> during Live DVD of OpenIndiana oi_148. For my surprise, one of the missing
> drivers is the onboard NIC! So I cancelled the installation and tried other
> distro and operating system to make sure that it wasn't a hardware defect
> issue.
> 
> Both OpenSolaris 2009.06 Live CD and Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD were also having
> the same issue. Furthermore I tried to install it with Windows 7, install
> its NIC drivers from Intel and whoila the NIC appeared and worked
> flawlessly. I also tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 and it successfully detect
> the adapter. Are there any missing steps that I overlooked on installing
> OpenIndiana? Shouldn't Intel NIC drivers support in OpenIndiana came out of
> the box right from its Live DVD session? Tonight I will try to install it
> with Solaris 11 Express and see if it recognizes the NIC.
> 
> Are there any output from a command that I should put in here for further
> investigation?
> 

Sandy Bridge platform was just released (around one month ago), so it's not
that weird oi_148 doesn't yet have the nic driver..

-- Pasi