[rescue] Sparcbook Wireless - was: Linux

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Sun Dec 1 22:26:14 CST 2002


--- Steve Hatle <shatle at nfldinet.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/02 10:03 PM, "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hmmm... Have to look into that... Now, if I could gt that driver to
> > work on a Sun4m platform, that would be tres cool (Finally, a
> > wireless SPARCbook!)...
> > 
> > =====
> > Lionel
> 
> I'd like that. I haven't fiddled with my 3GX and any wireless cards.
> Brain is fuzzy here- wasn't Solaris 7 supposed to have support for
> WaveLan/Orinoco or something like that?

Maybe, seems to be for only certain back-rev of the firmware on the
card... I have some that "should" work, but don't... :^(

> And before you poo-poo the question, I do have the Tadpole Sol 7 for
> my SparcBook, as well as the unobtainium 128 Meg upgrade. Makes the
> 'book a whole 'nother animal. :-)

I've got all that, plus a 170 MHz TurboSPARC (SPARCbook 3TX, bought
from a friend)... ;^)

=====
Lionel

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