[SPARCbook] Wireless 802.11 on Sparcbook? Yes, it can be done!

[Sunder]

Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to connect to an 802.11 wireless network
> with a Sparcbook?

Surprise, surprise. The Wavelan PCMCIA card is supported! 
There is a wavelan driver in my Sparcbook version of Solaris 7. 
I'm not sure what model it supports, but I'd say it does:

[tadpole:ray:/kernel/drv:32]$ ls -Fla pcwlan
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys        48168 May 14  1999 pcwlan*
[tadpole:ray:/kernel/drv:33]$ file pcwlan
pcwlan:         ELF 32-bit MSB relocatable SPARC Version 1
[tadpole:ray:/kernel/drv:34]$ strings pcwlan
pcwlan
wlan: can't figure out device type for parent "%s"
pccard
pcmcia
wlan: PCMCIA antenna failure; not connected?
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

wlan: init_board failed to power modem!
wlan(pc): NIC event code failed to reset!
wlan(pc): NIC receiver failed to reset!
wlan(pc): NIC command unit failed to reset!
.... snip.....


Now the real question is, which Wavelan card?

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