[osol-discuss] Q: possible to turn OpenSolaris into a Wifi access point?

[Martin Bochnig]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Thomas Nau <Thomas.Nau at uni-ulm.de> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> OpenSolaris makes a  great home-server for NAS (CIFS/NFS), firewalling,
> ... The only missing part for me so far is the capabilty to replace my
> WLAN router too. Is it possible to turn an OpenSolaris box into an
> access point? If so, which drivers do support it.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
> Thomas



Hallo,

For normal chipsets found in PCI 2.2 based cards (Desktop systems)
there isn't much WLAN driver support yet. For Laptops it looks better.

Check this:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/components/views/wifi_all_results.page1.html
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/wireless_driver_compatible_list/


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