[OmniOS-discuss] Dell R720 & Broadcom ethernet

[Scott Roberts]

Saso,

No worries.  I'll grab the Broadcom GigE driver and install that first.
Thanks!

WRT the 10Gig, it just flat out isn't compatible?  That's a real problem
for my project.

On 12/26/13, 2:45 PM, "Saso Kiselkov" <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 12/26/13, 7:38 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> On 12/26/13, 7:19 PM, Scott Roberts wrote:
>>> To be clear, neither the onboard Gigabit or 10Gig links are shown, only
>>> loopback, so running a pkg install fails.  I don't have any PCI
>>>ethernet
>>> cards to throw in this thing, either.  I'm pretty much dead in the
>>>water.
>>>
>> 
>> Which NICs did you purchase this box with? Broadcom or Intel?
>> 
>
>Shit, I'm having a reading comprehension problem, apparently :) it was
>in your subject.
>
>For the gigabit Broadcom 5720 you should be able to use the Solaris
>driver from here:
>http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtreme_server.php
>
>For the 10-gig 57800 part, I'm afraid, you're out of luck. Broadcom
>stopped shipping anything besides Windows and Linux drivers for this NIC.
>
>Hope this helps.
>-- 
>Saso