[geeks] solaris 10 may 2008

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 20:18 , Mark wrote:

> 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'? :)

I think Sun's drivers were also not as updated and featured as the  
ones from Broadcom.

Ditto for SATA support.  The new Solaris should run better even on  
Sun's SATA controller hardware.




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Shannon Hendrix
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