[geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2008/04/02 Wed PM 05:02:31 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

>On Apr 2, 2008, at 15:39 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>>> From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>>> Date: 2008/04/02 Wed PM 01:58:30 CDT
>>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [geeks] Dell T105 server arrives
>>
>>> On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:57 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you tried the driver I mentioned from the Broadcom website?
>>>> They list it as the driver for NetXtreme Ethernet chips for Solaris
>>>> and was released in late 2007... I plan to try it later, but I'm
>>>> curious of your successes (or lack thereof).
>>>
>>> Sorry, I forgot.
>>>
>>> That's where I got the driver I have.
>>>
>>> It was for Solaris 8.
>>
>> Odd - the files I just downloaded appear to be for Solaris 7/8/9/10:
>>
>> <quote>
>>               Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Driver
>>                      For Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10 for
>>                        i386 / SPARC platform
>>
>>              Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Broadcom Corporation
>>                         All rights reserved.
>
>You know what... that's what I got too.
>
>I read that and never say the other versions... doh!
>
>One reason I assumed it was version 8 is because of the errors I got  
>when installing the package.
>
>They are identical to the errors you get for other Solaris 8 packages:  
>attributes on a few system directories.
>
>I guess the package has some minor errors or maybe Solaris 10 has had  
>yet more changes since the driver was released.
>
>Sorry for the noise.
>
>As I said, I said NO to making those changes and it works fine.

As data-points, I tried Ubuntu Server AMD64 7.10 and it failed - the SATA optical drive couldn't be found by the installer (though the bootstrap program appeared to work fine), and Ubuntu Server i386 (32 bit) 7.10 and it installed correctly, including network (it supported 1 Gig Ethernet, though I didn't get a chance to actually clock the throughput).

My investigations show that the Alternative 7.10 CD image might work with 64 bit kernel, but I didn't get a chance to try it or the 8.04 betas yet.

Lionel