This page documents the software changes needed to make Solaris 10/09u8-ga-i86 run on an Intel Atom D510MO desktop motherboard.
We booted the Solaris install disk from an external USB DVD drive and installed on two raidz'd internal 300G SATA drives. Solaris installed without incident, but the ethernet driver didn't appear in an "ifconfig -a".
1) add a line to /etc/driver_aliases to identify a compatibility mode for the ethernet interface, a Realtek 8111DL,
update_drv -a -i '"pciex10ec,8168"' rge (reboot) ifconfig rge0 plumb
this worked perfectly, except that
2) ping / icmp was working; TCP was not. Add this line to /etc/system :
set ip:dohwcksum = 0
References:
- http://www.penoycentral.net/linuxnix/adding-rtl8111brtl8111c-network-driver-to-solaris-jumpstart/ "Mark Walmsley on March 14th, 2009 4:15 am "if you have a problem with only icmp traffic working here is the fix: add 'set ip:dohwcksum = 0' to /etc/system"
- http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=89596&tstart=0
- http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=63956&tstart=30
Then, we started with user side install.