[SPARCbook] Re: Wireless networking

[Joacim Haggmark]

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

Well, I think I would like to check the status and clean up the code
a bit before releasing it into the public. It's possible that I broke
something last time I worked on it and some debug messages may
be in swedish :)

Please let me know if you are interested in contributing, if so
I'm probably more motivated to clean it up as soon as possible.


	Regards   Joacim Hdggmark	joacim at ludd.luth.se

> > -----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