[SPARCbook] Re: Wireless networking

[John Appleby]

Sounds interesting. Care to share the code, such that it is?

JA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Joacim Haggmark
> Sent: 26 January 2003 03:28
> To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Re: Wireless networking
> 
> 
> > 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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