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20070122 Monday January 22, 2007
Finding out compatibility with your PC hardware

I found a really neat tool on BigAdmin: Sun Device Detection Tool. Okay, I got pushed there by a reply by John Brewer in a opensolaris-rfe thread: Re: SATA support. This BigAdmin article has a Java-based tool to browse your system to tell you what hardware it has and whether or not Solaris 10 11/06 has a driver to support each item.

So the hardest system I have is my Fujitsu P7010D. And here is what the tool reported:

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Now I don't care about the modem - I haven't in years. As for the wifi chip, I know it is supported in Nevada and I think it should work in Solaris 10.


Originally posted on Kool Aid Served Daily
Copyright (C) 2007, Kool Aid Served Daily

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Comments:

This "little" java program is very handy. It showed for me, where I find the drivers for my ethernet device. It saved me some googling :)

Posted by Andrew Stöckert on January 23, 2007 at 02:38 AM CST #

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