[indiana-discuss] Doubt about Wireless Card in OpenSolaris 2008-11
Imranullah Syed
s4091483 at student.uq.edu.au
Mon Jan 5 20:35:31 PST 2009
Hello Alan, Gilles,
If your wireless device is RTL 8187L then you are in luck and can use
the urtw driver.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/urtw/
Note that for that driver you need snv105+
Now, if you happen to have RTL 8187B then you are out of luck :( and
need to wait for someone to write the driver. Both 8187L and 8187B use
USB2.0
Regards,
Imran
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Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:22:03 +0100
From: Gilles Gravier <Gilles.Gravier at Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Gilles Gravier <Gilles.Gravier at Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Doubt about Wireless Card in OpenSolaris 2008-11
To: Gilles Gravier <Gilles.Gravier at Sun.COM>
Cc: Alan Vargas <Alan.Vargas at Sun.COM>, "ambassadors at sun.com"
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> So actualy, maybe somebody on indiana-discuss can answer the "is the
> driver available" part of this question? :)
>
> Cheers and happy new year,
> Gilles.
>
> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>> Hi, Alan!
>>
>> Do you notice that it also identified as a USB 2.0 adaptor on that OS
>> (Windows?)? So it really is connected through USB 2.0...
>>
>> "Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network Adaptor"...
>> seems pretty clear to me.
>>
>> Gilles
>>
>> Alan Vargas wrote:
>>> Hello Gilles,
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm sure that my Wireless Card it's a Realtek RTL 8187, look:
>>>
>>> And, I have my wireless card into my motherboard, not external.
>>>
>>>
>>> Gilles Gravier escribió:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> So first things first... Is your wireless card REALLY a Realtek RTL
>>>> 8187 based chip?
>>>>
>>>> Second... on many laptops, the USB bus is used to connect various
>>>> internal devices (like SD card readers) so why not a WiFi chip. USB
>>>> 2.0 bandwidth at 480 Mb/s is much more than the 54 Mb/s of 802.11g
>>>> these days, and just good enough to cover 802.11n... so no reason
>>>> not to. :)
>>>>
>>>> Gilles.
>>>>
>>>> Alan Vargas wrote:
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just finished installing the latest version of OpenSolaris,
>>>>> everything it's fine, the installation was very easy but when I
>>>>> opened the Device Driver Utility, I saw that my Wireless Card was
>>>>> recognized as a "USB Device" and when I try to configure a network
>>>>> connection, my wireless card doesn't appears in the Connections
>>>>> tab. Why occurs that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, in each OpenSolaris version that is released, I don't have
>>>>> support for my network device...Some suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or..What can I do for change the Driver of my wireless card, for
>>>>> use it to connect to the Web?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've enclosed to this email the screenshot of the Device Driver
>>>>> Utility.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please...help me!
>>>>>
>>>>> Alan Vargas
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