Re: Solaris 10 on a Hp / Compaq nx9005 laptop

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 05/29/05 

Date: 29 May 2005 09:06:59 GMT

Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com> writes:

>Has anyone installed Solaris 10 on one of these laptops? I've just
>tried it and it all seemed to work fine except for two things:

>It complained about an ACPI and a non ACPI device clashing somewhere
>in the pre-boot stuff. I don't really know anything about x86 HW (let
>alone Solaris on it) so I don't know what this means, whether it
>matters, or how to fix it if it does...

Those messages can generally be ignored, except in very
rare cases when they indicate a problem.

>It didn't ask me any of the networking questions, which I suspect
>means it did not find the ethernet card at all. ifconfig -a showed
>nothing but lo0 when it had done, so I guess this is right.

>Having the network work matters unfortunately - most of the other
>fancy stuff such as wireless &c doesn't really.

List pci devices using:

/usr/bin/X11/scanpci

This will tell you what devices you have.

There are websites with ethernet drivers for most popular
cards.

Casper 

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