[laptop-discuss] Wireless on SPARC Solaris

[James Cornell]

Ben Taylor wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>   
>>     
> 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
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Afauk, the only known supported wireless adapter under SPARC is a 
modified pcwl for Tadpole portables, for Solaris 9/10.  As for 
OpenSolaris, I really am unsure if those sources were made available 
with the changes.  It's nice to see zyd is partially working :-)

James