[OpenIndiana-discuss] well travelled Q about mving from oi_151a9 to ?

[Harry Putnam]

First, Thank you both for the excellent help... if those Z400 can work
out fine then I think my xw8600 has an excellent chance

Ron Dawson <ron.dawson at gmail.com> writes:

> We've updated some fairly old HP Z400 workstations from OI_151a9 to Hipster
> with no discernable hardware issues.  The only issues we had were with HP
> network printers no longer working, but that had nothing to do with the
> hardware.
>

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Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> writes:

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Harry wrote:

>> But can anyone say how it might go were I to get a successful install
>> on my hardware not a vm with 11.3

Nikola replied:

> You are all better with Openindiana hipster, because it is free
> software , open and you can actually do something bout it and change
> what you like instead of just relying on some company and not being
> able to run in any production without contract plus supported
> hardware...
>
> For instance, I had trouble using Wireless card, but on illumos IRC
> channels I got info to try putting it's info as alias into
> /etc/driver_aliases or with add_drv and my wireless is working, since
> it is working driver, but hardware had a bit different IDs.

That all sounds very encouraging, and thank for the good details.

Very helpful, both replies.