Solaris 10 - Sunpci II

Dear All,
Does anybody know if Solaris 10 will support Sunpci II cards? Currently this product will not install. Sun support can't answer the problem as Solaris 10 is still in beta.
As far as I can see there are no drivers for Solaris 10 for the card which is why the package fails but will an updated version of the package come out for Solaris 10 or is there a fix?

See this blog entry:
http://blog.ekholm.org/2005/02/04/solaris-10-sunpci-ii-tricks/

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