A friend of mine recently gave me his old Sun Ultra 10 workstation, which was apparently headed for the dump.  The hardware is in pristine condition, aside from the power button and LED being initially disconnected, which I corrected.  I also had to resolder the PC speaker connections.

I installed the latest version of Solaris 10, which ended up being the 6/06 release.  As expected, the freeware (companion disc) packages had all sorts of broken dependencies.  I had to roll a couple things by hand, which took ... awhile.

Thinking that I might want to play around with CDE (nostalgic value, only), I picked up a cheap PCI USB 2.0 host adapter with the intent of connecting it to my KVM.  The first mistake was not checking for compatible adapters, so I ended up with stuff like this:

[...] (ehci0): Due to recently discovered incompatibilities
[...] (ehci0): with this USB controller, USB2.x transfer
[...] (ehci0): support has been disabled. This device will
[...] (ehci0): continue to function as a USB1.x controller.
[...] (ehci0): If you are interested in enabling USB2.x
[...] (ehci0): support please, refer to the ehci(7D) man page.
[...] (ehci0): Please also refer to www.sun.com/io for
[...] (ehci0): Solaris Ready products and to
[...] (ehci0): www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl for additional
[...] (ehci0): compatible USB products.

I don't think it even works correctly as a 1.x controller, either.  No amount of changes to /usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig seemed to make the mouse or keyboard work, and if the system boots with both plugged in, mounting of the root filesystem times out.  (What the heck?)  Ah well..

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