[geeks] solaris 10 may 2008

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 19:05 , Mark wrote:

> On 18 Apr 2008, at 20:28, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> Support for the Broadcom NetXtreme chipset, so now those of us with  
>> Dell T105's should not have to download a driver.
>
> The more I think about this and your T105 comments the less it makes  
> sense. The Sun Java Workstation I have here (I think it's a 1100z)  
> has an AMD chipset and a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5703X chipset and, as  
> you'd imagine from Sun, has no problems networking in Solaris 10.  
> Moreover I was using a x86 DVD that was at least a year old. Is it a  
> particular NetXtreme chipset they have added support for?

Their NetXtreme support has always been limited.

Supposedly they have addressed this and support the whole family now,  
or most of it.



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Shannon Hendrix
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