[SPARCbook] Re: Wireless networking

[John Appleby]

Hi,

Yeah... I was thinking of having a hack at it. Don't worry about
cleaning it up too much, I'm happy to take it as is.

I'm most fed up with using my SB with that awful connector on it, plus I
have a spare 802.11b PCMCIA card, though I'm not sure what chipset it
has.

Regards,

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Joacim Haggmark
> Sent: 30 January 2003 13:39
> To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Re: Wireless networking
> 
> 
> > 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
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