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

[Okky Hendriansyah]

Hi Pasi,

Hmm, yes you have a point there. Other than insert additional LAN card in
one of the expansion slots, are there any workarounds to enable the onboard
NIC? Or I should just wait for the stable/next release of OpenIndiana?

Thanks!

Best regards,
Okky Hendriansyah

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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