vfe NIC driver: "Add hostname for the NIC card into the /etc/hosts file???"
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That is an unusual request. Generally, you should just have to add a hostname in /etc/nodename if you're using DHCP. That way the standard DHCP setup in /etc/default/dhcpagent should know what hostname to assign your machine when it allocates an IP for you.
I'd be interested to know how this turns out. Maybe it was a typo in the instructions (?) Doesn't seem to make any sense that you'd add an IP/hostname entry into /etc/hosts if you shouldn't be able to know what it is before DHCP assigns it to you
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This isn't Solaris documentation but an English translation of the Japanese open source driver one.
Perhaps the original Murayama's doc hasn't that slightly confusing instruction ...
OpenSolaris 2008.05 doesn't bundle gcc. Installing it is very straightforward with IPS.
This isn't Solaris documentation but an English translation of the Japanese open source driver one.
Perhaps the original Murayama's doc hasn't that slightly confusing instruction ...
OpenSolaris 2008.05 doesn't bundle gcc. Installing it is very straightforward with IPS.
Code:
pkg install gcc-dev
How do I install a package needed to get an internet connection (ie a driver to get a working NIC) without a nic. I do have a Solaris 10 11/06. Can I install it off that?
You can compile the driver on a machine with gcc then install in on the OpenSolaris machine.
Murayama's driver packages also contain a binary version, which you can copy into /kernel/drv dir. Therefore, compiling is not obligatory if you don't want to.
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