[geeks] solaris compatibility tool

Tue Feb 27 23:49:52 CST 2007

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:59:14 -0600 (CST)
Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:

> What platform?

Linux and Firefox 2.0.2, Java 1.5 I believe.

> I just saw the "/tmp? so I assume your on Solaris ;^)

Not yet... I think it has been 4 years now since I had Solaris running server
duty around here.  NetBSD and FreeBSD just work so well.

It seems to me that something is putting the SDM file in /tmp, and SDM cannot
read it from there.  It thinks it is a URL.

I think that's how Firefox hands off things like external protocols to other
programs, and SDM doesn't know how to handle a pathname.

Then again, I might be totally wrong. I really don't know exactly how Firefox
and SDM are supposed to work together.

> Do you configure the download location BEFORE you let it start downloading?
> That messed me up for a while...

Yes.

I finally got the regular download to work after logging in and going through
Sun's crappy WWW UI to get back to a download link.

Ugh... why do they make it so hard?

Anyway, the Solaris test gave mixed results.  The motherboard is supported,
along with all of the USB, IDE, and SATA ports.

It identified my "Audigy 4" soundcard as an "Audigy 2" and says there is no
driver for it.

The bigger problem is this: Solaris doesn't support my Symbios 895 SCSI
controller.

It will be OK while I'm playing around, but if Solaris were good enough to
replace Linux on the desktop, Symbios support is a requirement.

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