Realtek 8139 Driver for Solaris

Simon Anderson simon@tumbleweed.com
Tue Oct 12 06:53:38 1999


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> Hi Don,

Thanks for your response. I have contacted the vendor and Sun and neither seem
at all interested in offering a driver.

Perhaps you might consider writing it for Solaris? :)

-S.


> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Simon Anderson wrote:
>
> > I wonder if you can help me. I'm trying to install SOlaris on a Sharp
> > Mebius laptop, but need to do a network install. Solaris has no support
> > for this driver..
>
> Oh really?  Sun claims touts their extensive device support -- why don't you
> ask them for a driver.  (That was sarcasm -- Solaris has many drivers, but
> they tend to be for high-end specialty boards, not commodity hardware.  It
> seems that Sun is mostly interested in narrow, protected markets.)
>
> > so I'm hoping you could give me some guidlines on
> > possibly porting the linux driver to Solaris 7.
>
> No, this is a license violation.
>
> To be precise, you can modify the code for your own use, but any
> distribution of such a driver would violate the license, making it pointless
> to do the port.
>
> Donald Becker                                     becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
> Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
> 301-286-0882         http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html

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Hi Don,


Thanks for your response. I have contacted the vendor and Sun and neither seem at all interested in offering a driver.

Perhaps you might consider writing it for Solaris? :)

-S.
 

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Simon Anderson wrote:

> I wonder if you can help me. I'm trying to install SOlaris on a Sharp
> Mebius laptop, but need to do a network install. Solaris has no support
> for this driver..

Oh really?  Sun claims touts their extensive device support -- why don't you
ask them for a driver.  (That was sarcasm -- Solaris has many drivers, but
they tend to be for high-end specialty boards, not commodity hardware.  It
seems that Sun is mostly interested in narrow, protected markets.)

> so I'm hoping you could give me some guidlines on
> possibly porting the linux driver to Solaris 7.

No, this is a license violation.

To be precise, you can modify the code for your own use, but any
distribution of such a driver would violate the license, making it pointless
to do the port.

Donald Becker                                     becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
301-286-0882         http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html

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