[OpenIndiana-discuss] Network card "Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V" support (OI, Hipster)

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 12/28/15 06:57 AM, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have PC with "Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V" onboard network card and
> it is not recognized by OI (Hipster) installation...
>
> When looking at this list: http://illumos.org/hcl/ it is true - no such card there
>
> But, on my (other PC installed OI Hipster) in /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids I can
> see it:
>
>          15b8  Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V

pci.ids is just a copy of the device id to name mappings table from 
pciids.sf.net and has nothing to do with driver support, only with
whether utilities like scanpci can print a name for the device.

Many devices in pci.ids aren't actually supported by Solaris drivers.

	-alan-