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

[Alex Lam S.L.]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:09:44PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I tried Ubuntu 10.10 on it.  The wired ethernet works.  What are the
> legalities of examining the Linux driver or Red Hat patches to the
> driver to find a fix for the Illumos driver?

I don't know if you mean this "atge" driver:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/

This works for the L1 chip on the ASUS motherboard.


Alex.



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