[SPARCbook] Re: Wireless networking

[Koyote]

Oh, I hope it's wavelan. I've got 6 lucent/orinoco/apple wavelan chipset
cards, and two 3GX machines.......

:)


"John Appleby" <john at dnsworld.co.uk> writes:

> 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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