[OmniOS-discuss] Gimmie a Connection

[Dan McDonald]

> On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:08 PM, cristian pancià <hazzino at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tried smartOs just as a virtualized SO, i wanna get a step forward.Installed OmniOS, on my Laptop
> 
> https://www.asus.com/support/Download/3/390/0/2/dQ05pflVfztxEczD/36/
> 
> On the chat some friendly guy suggested to put the Vendor and Product info into the file /etc/driver_aliases done at the level of atge, inserted the text, but after the reboot i had a strange error like product not reckognized and card with reciving errors so i could ping or transmit but no way to establish a connection.
> My questions or request
> 1 Why the Distro gives install more drivers doesn't work if not why keeping on that option?
> 2 Has someone a working atge driver to post me no package cause i can't connect to the web and doing a repo on my hard disk is too huge or do you have any idea for a simple one?with tips?

You should ping illumos  (upstream) about atge.  I'm not sure which hardware you exactly have, but it's possible upstream illumos will need more atge support than what's there.

> 3 I spent 30Euro for a USB3toGigabit (http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=131;71;112) presuming it would work but i haven't see any driver around, if yes binary?

USB3 doesn't work on illumos.  You have to stick with USB2.

> PS is vmadm full functional as in smartOS is imgadm present too?

No.  vmadm & imgadm are SmartOS-only.

Dan