Enabling a Marvel Yukon NIC on OpenSolaris

When I installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 in my laptop (Sony Vaio), the operating system does not recognized my ethernet card (marvel yukon), but identified my wireless NIC.

I don’t use ethernet card frequently because I have a Wireless Access Point. But, some days ago I had to enable my Marvel Yukon.

Let’s see how did I do this:

By default, snv_86 build does not come with the Marvel Yukon driver enabled in the kernel. But you can download it at:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/myk-2.6.5.tar.gz

Done that, I take these steps:

1. tar -zxvf myk-2.6.5.tar.gz

2. cd myk-2.6.5

3. rm -Rf obj Makefile

4. ln -s Makefile.i386_gcc Makefile

5. ln -s i386 obj

6. export PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH

7. which gcc (/usr/ccs/bin/gcc expected)

8. which make (/usr/ccs/bin/make expected)

9. pfexec make install

10. pfexec ./adddrv.sh (should says ok!)

11. ifconfig myk0 plumb

12. ifconfig -a (wow ! I see my ethernet card!!!   )

PS: Before try my tips, please, read the installation document in tarball ’cause you can have to do different steps.

Links:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/

OpenSolaris

Finally, I’ve decide to install OpenSolaris on my Sony Vaio laptop. It functions perfectly…video, audio, flashplayer and wireless.

I installed the OpenSolaris 2008.05 in a 50GB partition. Then, I think I have enough space to make my experiences.

And now, I’ll install Firefox3 on my OpenSolaris box. This package can be find here.