[geeks] solaris 10 may 2008

[Mark]

On 19 Apr 2008, at 01:14, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 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.

By 'Limited' I assume that means 'Limited to the ones we use in our  
own computers'? :)

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