[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?

Nick Couchman Nick.Couchman at seakr.com
Mon Apr 25 17:12:59 CEST 2011


> Awesome! If you can make a note of what you had to do in order to get it 
> to work and post it to the list, I'm sure lots of people will be very 
> grateful :)

I'll go back through and try to reproduce the issues and document how I
worked around it.

> 
> Okay - I missed this as when I was stepping through the installer I 
> didn't bother with any of the networking stuff. However there is 
> definitely a bug here - running tcpdump on the bridge interface shows 
> data packets with junk in them rather than a proper DHCP request, so I'm 
> wondering if OpenBIOS doesn't initialise something in the NIC correctly? 
> Or maybe it's another alignment issue with the the LANCE buffers?
> 
> Anyway, I'll take a look but it may take me a little time to figure out 
> what's going on.

Let me know if I can provide any further information.  Sounds like
you've reproduced the issue, but if I can provide any additional help,
I'm happy to do so.

-Nick



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