Today i wrote a letter to the emaillist of campus ambassadors of sun mirosystems.lnc because so many students here found that the auto dist solaris kit cannot detect the device driver of their systems.i suggested a tool to check the system in advance,and then u can decide to install and what & how to down load the sun's or the thirdpart's driver.
the content of the letter lists as following
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Hi everyone,
many students have installed solaris os but without driver detected ,sometimes.On Hardware Compatibility Lists , sun shows us the devices which support the solaris, as well ,we may download the driver required by our devices.By the way,there is a tool,Sun Device Detection Tool ,which is based on jnlp protocol, can tell us in just a few minutes whether the Solaris OS supports the devices that are detected in our x86 system, in advance.What's more ,it can provide an interface that enables a user to select the Solaris version for which the user wants to retrieve the driver availability information.
I have attached the tools in the attachment.u may refer to
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/indexRes.html http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html
     Regards,
      Nicky
QuQiang, CA of DaLian University of Technology,R.P. of China
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u can try the tool named sddt_11.jnlp and try the solaris system,a unix system.
or u can copy the code and name the file sddt_11.jnlp then run it after u have installed the jre.