[laptop-discuss] Wireless on SPARC Solaris

[Ben Taylor]

Raymond wrote:
> Hi I think this is the right list to ask about wireless support. I'm running Solaris snv_78 on Ultra 10, I also have a Belkin USB PCI card installed and working. Does anyone know if there are any USB wireless adapters which will work on this platform, what chipset/brand do they have to be in order to work, etc. Thanks.
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The zyd driver may work.  I've been meaning to get to compile on 
SPARC/Nevada but haven't
had the time (just moved).

the most current source of the driver is at 
http://svn9.cvsdude.com/kdesolaris/zyd/trunk
and supports both zd1211 and zd1211b chipsets, and the al2230, rfmd and 
al7230b
radios.  A list of some supported devices is at 
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/zyd/
(there are approximately 70 different vendors who use Zydas chipsets in 
their
USB 2.0 Wifi devices).

The driver currently supports WEP, and WPA support is working (though 
I've seen a panic
I've not been able to track down yet) for both my ZyXEL G-220 and 
Gigafast WF748-CUI (zd1211b
device) adapter.

You'll need a copy of the opensolaris source tree to compile the driver, 
and I end up putting
it in /export/src/onnv-gate and then symlinking it to /usr/src/onnv-gate 
(since that's the default
location for the open solaris source in the Makefile)

hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/onnv/onnv-gate

Ben