Thursday Sep 06, 2007

I just finished installing Solaris SXDE 9/07 on a Sony Vaio TZ190N.
This is a pretty cool little machine which weighs just over 2 lbs and
has a 32GB solid state hard drive. There wasn't enough space on this for
dual booting with windows vista so I blew that away and just installed
Solaris. The install worked without any problems other than it may have
been just a bit slower than a normal install. once the install was
completed everything but the networking just worked (audio etc...). The
wired nic card is a Marvell 88E8055 and once the driver installed the
networking came up fine. I downloaded the driver from http://www.skd.de/
(I chose the PCI Express Desktop adapter) and then transfered the driver
package over using a usb memory stick which Solaris automatically
recognized and mounted. The wifi chip set is the Intel 4965AGN for which
we don't yet have drivers and so far I've been unable to get that
working. However everything else on this machine appears to be working.
Overall it was not bad at all getting this thing up and running!

For more info on getting the Marvell cards running see Alok Aggarwal's blog on the subject.

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