--------------80FE174008432667E0D595A2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > 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 -- Simon R. Anderson Ho: +44 TBA Tumbleweed Communications Mo: +44 788 167 6111 Hurst Grove, Sandford Lane Wo: +44 118 934 7116 Hurst RG10 0SQ Fx: +44 118 934 7101 UK - Key ID 1024/0x88527DBF Fingerprint 040A CA79 6D56 A8DA 6B7A FCD9 9CE0 CE85 8852 7DBF PGP public key --> finger oob@wildstar.net --------------80FE174008432667E0D595A2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">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-- Simon R. Anderson Ho: +44 TBA Tumbleweed Communications Mo: +44 788 167 6111 Hurst Grove, Sandford Lane Wo: +44 118 934 7116 Hurst RG10 0SQ Fx: +44 118 934 7101 UK - Key ID 1024/0x88527DBF Fingerprint 040A CA79 6D56 A8DA 6B7A FCD9 9CE0 CE85 8852 7DBF PGP public key --> finger oob@wildstar.net