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diff --git a/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/ts_solaris-no-e1000-bm.dita b/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/ts_solaris-no-e1000-bm.dita new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..996347c30bf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/ts_solaris-no-e1000-bm.dita @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> +<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd"> +<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="ts_solaris-no-e1000-bm"> + + <title>Older Solaris Releases Do Not Work with E1000 Ethernet</title> + <body> + <p> + Solaris releases before Solaris 10 1/06, including Solaris 9, Solaris + 10 1/05 (GA), and Solaris 10 3/05 (HW2), are unable to communicate + through the Intel E1000 card. The Solaris e1000g driver does not enable + PCI bus mastering for the network adapter and is therefore unable to send + and receive data. This problem appears to be specific to the e1000g + driver and does not reflect general Solaris driver behavior. + </p> + + <p> + The AMD PCnet emulation (using the Solaris pcn driver) can be used + instead of Intel E1000. Solaris 10 1/06 (U1) and later releases do not + have this problem and work with the emulated E1000 ethernet + controller. + </p> + </body> +</topic> |