[OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel 82579V ethernet not recognized

[James Carlson]

Open Indiana wrote:
> My first guess is that you could try to change e1000g with bge.
> Solaris has different approaches on naming a NIC, but I don't know how this
> works.
> 
> A nic could be named e1000g0 or bge0 or nge0 and it seems to depend on the
> hardware.

bge is for Broadcom hardware, so it won't work with an Intel card.  nge
is for NVIDIA nForce.  Usually, the drivers also have man pages, so it's
possible to figure out what each one does without having to guess too much.

The 82579V should use the e1000g driver, but will need updates for the
new chipset.  (It did need updates on Linux, so the failure to attach
reported here is not surprising.)  An alternative might be the 'em'
driver from Masayuki Murayama.

See:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/832

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>