[ug-glug] opensolaris and wifi

[Frank Pittel]

Unfortunatly I'm not nearly good enough of a programmer to write
my own driver. I checked the hardware compat page and the "ndis
wrapper" is the supported method of getting my wifi card to work
with opensolaris. I may give it a try if I give up on Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is nice but to much like windows for my liking!!

Frank


On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:17:21PM -0400, Chip Bennett wrote:
> Sounds like an opportunity.
> 
> Chip
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ug-glug-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:ug-glug-
> > bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eric Boutilier
> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:03 PM
> > To: Frank Pittel
> > Cc: ug-glug at opensolaris.org
> > Subject: Re: [ug-glug] opensolaris and wifi
> > 
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Frank Pittel wrote:
> > > 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
> > >
> > 
> > Conventional wisdom is to avoid Broadcom I'm afraid. You can get it to
> > work with "NDIS wrapper" technology and maybe other methods, but I
> > personally don't think it's worth it. FWIW, the last I heard, Atheros
> > was the most popular chipset among opensolaris laptop users. But there
> > are other good options, e.g. I use the wpi driver for the Intel 3945
> > Chipset that's in my Sun-issue Sony Vaio.
> > 
> > But most importantly, the canonical site for laptop wifi is here:
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/
> > 
> > Eric
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