[laptop-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Solaris 10 and Netgear WG311v3 Wireless

[Albert Lee]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:30 -0800, Stephen Lau wrote:
> Hi Timothy,
>     You'll have better luck on the laptop-discuss list where the laptop 
> and wireless driver gurus hang out.
> 
> cheers,
> steve
> 
> Timothy Murray wrote:
> > I posted a different wireless attempt earlier but have abandoned it.  I recently obtained a Netgear WG311v3 wireless PCI card.
> >
> > I attempted to use NDISwrapper to create a workable driver but haven't had any success.
> >
> > I followed the steps outlined on the NDIS Wrapper Toolkit page to the letter.  I even followed Carlton's link.
> >
> > but when I try attaching the driver by using:
> >
> > add_drv -i '"pci11ab,1faa"' bcmndis, it reboots, dumps, reboots, etc continuously.
> >
> > I'm absolutely new to Solaris so there may be a very easy explaination.  I assumed that even though I used the alias "bcmndis" it would be okay because the driver was complied using the correct Marvell chipset drivers.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >  

OpenSolaris has the 'malo' driver for the Marvell Libertas chipsets, I
don't know if it compiles under Solaris 10; it might be GLDv3 only. The
ndis driver was really only tested with a few drivers and often doesn't
work with others.

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/malo/

-Albert