[rescue] A little help and observations.

[Robert Toegel]

Never thought of that.  Actually never took it apart other than adding more
memory.  Hmmm..well, I guess I could search for one with a "supported"
chipset.  The worse it could be is unobtanium or the wifi in on the
motherboard (which would be kind of silly).  Can't hurt by looking.  Thanks
for the tip.

Bob

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, hike <mh1272 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Over a decade ago, I used a Wireless Game adapter to connect an Ultra 1
> or
> > 2 to my wireless home network.  It worked well -- lan cable to wireless
> > adapter which connected to the wireless network.
> >
> > A USB wireless adapter would probably do the same today and an adapter
> with
> > the preferred chip could be purchased.  Concerning the differing speeds
> and
> > standards (a, b, g, n, ac), I have found that some N and AC wifi routers
> > really try to ignore B laptops and really don't like B laptops.  With a
> > USB, the speed and the standard of the wireless network can be matched.
> >
> >
> > As for mirroring, we always used DiskSuite successfully.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Robert Toegel <rjtoegel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>     Since I've retired, I started getting back into my Solaris stuff
> that
> >> I've ignore for a while.  Anyway, for fun, I put Solaris 10 on an old
> IBM
> >> R52 laptop.  Got it working but I'm having a small problem.  I'd like to
> >> use the wifi on the laptop and I know that Solaris seems to only like
> the
> >> Atheos chipset which it doesn't have.  Can somebody point me in the
> >> direction of a possible source of software (hardware even) that might
> >> work.  The USB also acts a little inconsistent too but one problem at a
> >> time.
> >>
>       Chances are the laptop has the wifi card in a minipci slot. If
> that is the case, I personally would go on ebay and look for another
> one. I might have one but need to find in which box it might be hiding
> in.
>
> >>      I'm also upgrading the drives on my Ultra80 to larger size and
> want to
> >> have one mirror the other.  I know there was a discussion of this a
> month
> >> or son ago, so I can probable fine that in the archives (I hope), just
> have
> >> to remember the date better. :)
> >>
> >>      For jokes I tried to fire up an old SGI O2+ but no go.  The supply
> was
> >> dead.  I had another one with broken plastic exterior.  I swapped
> supplies
> >> and all is OK. That and the drive frames on the 80, this hardware is so
> >> much easier to mess with than "other" machines.  Couple of minutes and
> it's
> >> done.  I've forgotten how easy it was.
> >>
> >>      I appreciate any pointers for the right direction.  I'm beginning
> to
> >> think I've forgotten more Solaris than I actually knew.
> >>
> >> Bob
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