[OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from Ubuntu

Tue Nov 7 23:53:09 UTC 2017

Hi Till,

I have been searching over the links that you provided for Qualcomm Atheros
AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" and "Broadcom Limited BCM43228 802.11 a/b/g/n"
wireless network cards but it seems that they are not supported yet.

I may have to try another network card, if possible, to see what might
work. Will keep trying though.

Thanks again,
Lonnie

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Atheros 8k are supported via freenic drivers.
> http://freenicdrivers.la.coocan.jp/
>
> Broadcom Probably aswell.
>
> Also have a look if there are packages not installed
> List from OI.org
> http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/en/search.shtml?token=
> atheros&action=Search
>
> You can list the packages via
> $ pkg list | grep $NAME
> or
> $ pkg search -l atheros
>
> For Broadcom it should be the same deal.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Greetings
> Till
>
> On 07.11.2017 15:15, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> > Thanks All for the nice welcome and I look forward to testing out OI as
> > well as trying to contribute a bit along the way during the course of my
> > projects.
> >
> > I actually, just tried to boot the OI (Hipster) live iso on an 64-bit AMD
> > test machine that I have been running Ubuntu 16.04 and although it does
> > boot up reasonably well, but I found that it does not recognize my
> network
> > cards "Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" and "Broadcom Limited
> > BCM43228 802.11 a/b/g/n" wireless. Actually, it seems to see them in the
> > device list, but it does not activate them so perhaps I need some drivers
> > if they are available.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lonnie
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/ 7/17 12:26 PM, openbabel wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings All,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to add that if you have a particular interest in helping
> the
> >>> desktop environment advance we would welcome your imput.
> >>>
> >>> Robert Jones
> >>>
> >>
> >> Just to add..
> >> ...and would also welcome posting answer to messages, below quotes :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 07/11/2017 07:53, Nikola M wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 11/ 7/17 01:34 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Greetings All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have used many operating systems over the years and lately have
> been
> >>>>> using Windows (all flavors) as well as Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo,
> >>>>> etc...) bu mostly have been using Ubuntu 16.04 as my desktop for some
> >>>>> time
> >>>>> now.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Currently, I am gearing up to do a couple of projects which have the
> >>>>> Illumos base which are in the SmartOS arena, but it made me start to
> >>>>> wonder
> >>>>> if I should also consider loading up OpenIndiana Hipster as my
> desktop
> >>>>> so
> >>>>> that I can become more familiar with it as it seems to have many
> >>>>> similarities as SmartOS and wanted to get the opinion of the OI
> >>>>> community
> >>>>> as to what they thought about it as a day-to-day OS?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mostly just exploring the possibility of nuking Ubuntu in favor of
> >>>>> installing OI for a while to see how it runs.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any comments, experiences, or suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Firstly , Openindiana is the distribution name because /hipster
> >>>> (lowercase) is not OS/distribution name, but a repository name.
> >>>> I welcome you to illumos distributions, Unix-derived family. (It is
> >>>> truly derived from Unix and not just Unix-like)
> >>>>
> >>>> Openindiana is a server-oriented UK-hosted OS that have a desktop. OI
> >>>> has 'snapshots' twice a year (not a releases per se, since they are
> not
> >>>> supported to be updated as such like in Ubuntu) and in the meantime
> there
> >>>> are contiuous updates of fresh and 'vanilla' illumos updates and the
> effort
> >>>> of contributors in 'userland' source repository to make it better,
> more bug
> >>>> free and add fundamental features, where Alexander Pyhalov is
> standing out
> >>>> together with all other important contributors.
> >>>>
> >>>> Having a MATE desktop, Firefox ESR and LibreOffice (from SFE
> >>>> repository), Openindiana is enough for everyday use of internet
> services
> >>>> and using Solaris zones (those might end up hosted in the illumos
> based
> >>>> cloud), but it is sure that some device driver support might lacking
> or
> >>>> trailing behind  a bit.
> >>>> You can also bootstrap Joyent SmartOS userland and use it in the
> window,
> >>>> using pkgsrc packages, separately installed, in the terminal emulator
> and
> >>>> have it together with OI desktop experience. There are also Boot
> >>>> Envornments on top of ZFS that makes both testing and production use
> more
> >>>> reliable and predictive experience etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> So you can count on frequent and inclusive experience, that would
> demand
> >>>> of you to be more included in the development of the OI itself, not
> only by
> >>>> posting bug reports or driver support requests, but it could also
> allow you
> >>>> to be more directly involved (and more appreciated) then in some other
> >>>> distributions you could. So it's both exciting and fulfilling
> experience to
> >>>> use it and make it better.
> >>>> Don' take anything by the letter , be free to openly (and publicly!)
> >>>> collaborate with others and everything you do will be important.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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