[OmniOS-discuss] Dell R720 & Broadcom ethernet

[Chris Nehren]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 19:27:35 +0000, 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.

You can use an existing system to create a package archive of
lspci, which you could then transfer over virtual disk in your
IPKVM, via sneakernet, or other means.

pkgrecv -a -d lspci.p5a -s http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/release/ \
pkg:/system/pciutils

Also of interest would be `prtconf -v` output, but admittedly
without network that might be hard to acquire.

The R720, according to the datasheet, uses the Intel C600 series
chipset, and its NIC (the 82579LM) is listed in the HCL, so in
theory it should work. It's not disabled in the BIOS, or anything
silly like that, right?

-- 
Chris Nehren