[laptop-discuss] Re: Re: iwi - Does not recognize Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG MiniPCI

[James C. McPherson]

henk lutgerink wrote:
> thanks for the quick reply; 
> downloaded opensolaris (dvd) cat the parts(5) installed opensolaris
> (nevada) downloaded the iwi-driver,  pkgadd;  ifconfig iwi0 plumb and low
> and behold its working and is looking good!!!
> 
> probably got to do a add_drive to start it every time I use the laptop;

No, you don't need to do that. That's not how Solaris works. Once you've
added the driver you don't need to keep trying to add it.

> just the wpa_supplicant is not working yet, but thats a question of reading
> the docs

the WPA functionality isn't available for iwi yet, only ath.




cheers,
James C. McPherson