[SPARCbook] Re: Wireless networking

[Koyote]

Has there been any update on this?

I think it is beyond my standard skillset, but if there's anything I can
do to help some other way, holler?


Joacim Haggmark <joacim at ludd.luth.se> writes:

> > What is really needed, is a Solaris driver for a bog-standard 802.11b
> > PCMCIA card (vapourware at present!).
> 
> Last year I started porting the wi-driver from FreeBSD.
> It supports both the Prism2 and Lucent chipset. It was possible to
> ifconfig the interface and I saw that the card choosed the correct
> channel etc but I never got any receive interrupts back and I didn't
> have any equipment to sniff 802.11b so I could see if I was
> able to send anything or not.
> 
> One thing that could be a problem is that in the exemple pcmcia drivers
> they use csx_MakeDeviceNode and I can't use it because it doesn't
> have any option for setting the device cloneable. I used 
> ddi_create_minor node directly instead but I don't know if 
> csx_MakeDeviceNode does something else.
> 
> It was more then six month ago I worked on it the last time but
> hopefully I'll have some time to finish it. Now I have some more
> equipment and I was also planning to test it on Solaris x86 but
> I have had problems installing it on my Thinkpad R31 (well, I can
> install it but it won't boot after).
> 
> 
> 	Regards   Joacim Hdggmark	joacim at ludd.luth.se
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