[ug-glug] opensolaris and wifi

[Frank Pittel]

Aside from the obvious reasons for wanting to run opensolaris on the
laptop. Part of the reason is me wanting to get rid of vista. If you
like looking at eye candy it's the OS for you. If you want to actually
do any real work vista is a bust!!

Frank



On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:31:12PM -0400, Chip Bennett wrote:
> Not sure, but if you load Solaris 10 as a guest to a Windows OS that
> supports the wifi adaptor, under VMware, it will work for sure.  ;-)
> 
> Chip
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ug-glug-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:ug-glug-
> > bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Frank Pittel
> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:10 PM
> > To: ug-glug at opensolaris.org
> > Subject: [ug-glug] opensolaris and wifi
> > 
> > I've recently decided to break open the piggy bank and
> > got a Dell laptop. It's an XPS M1530 with as memory serves
> > broadcom 4312 wifi adaptor. I was thinking of loading opensolaris
> > on it but would only be interested in doing so if there was a chance
> > of getting wifi to work. How is opensolaris about working on laptops
> > and wifi?
> > 
> > Frank
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