[illumos-Developer] Illumos device drivers (Was: Solaris Future?)

[Garrett D'Amore]

On 07/28/2011 11:53 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:21:28AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
>> The only hardware I have that doesn't work with Illumos now is my Acer
>> AS3810T-6827 laptop.
> I found another one that should be easier.  My ASUS Eeepc laptop runs
> Opensolaris, but it has no driver for the wired ethernet.  Wireless
> works.  The wired ethernet device shows up this way in `scanpci':
>
>      pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1969 device 0x1062
>       Atheros Communications Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
>
> Maybe I only need to modify the `atge' driver.
>

This is probably a fairly straight-forward task if you can find either 
programming specs, or a working Linux driver.

     - Garrett