[OmniOS-discuss] i217 driver

[Dan McDonald]

On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Brogyányi József <brogyi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm new here but I'm not green entirely because I use OI. Unfortunately OI not contains the new igb driver.

Really?  Maybe oi_151a9 doesn't have it, but I thought hipster did.

Oh well, you're here now!  (And I remember testing the I217 back at Nexenta.  That will work if you're up to date with it.)

> I found description on the web and it's not work for me.
> The OmniTI knows the i217. My problem is on your site has 4 different iso. Which one is fit for me?

Four?  I thought we only had three:  Long-Term Support (r151006), Stable (r151010), and Bloody (r151011).

Oh, and BTW, it's not "igb" for the I217, it's "e1000g":

r151011(~)[1]% grep 8086,153a /etc/driver_aliases
e1000g "pci8086,153a"
e1000g "pciex8086,153a"
r151011(~)[0]% 

> I read about this os often has a update. How to know when issued the new update and how to do it?
> These two command are enough?
> 
> pkg refresh --full
> pkg image-update

Those two are enough for a given release.  To jump releases (for example, once r151012 becomes Stable, and Bloody goes to r151013) you may have to do a bit more with "pkg set-publisher", but that won't happen for a few more months.

I'd recommend Stable for the new user like yourself.

Dan