SunOS 4.1.4 or Solaris 2.5.1 (was Re: [SPARCbook] Anybody still use this list?)

Michael Lorenz ml at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Mon Apr 15 08:25:26 CDT 2002


Hi there,

>> > It's running NetBSD 1.5 right now. I'd like to actually use the PCMCIA
>> >slots... has a way been found to get those ORiNOCO wireless cards to work?
>>
>> There is a PCMCIA wlan driver but I didn't find any useful information
>> about it, not even which cards it may support, not to talk of
>> configuration...
>> Someone told me that this driver would only do 2MBit - couldn't verify
>> due to lack of hardware, I tried a 11MBit card which the driver didn't
>> recognize and without documentation I couldn't figure out
>> anything useful :-(
>>
>
> On another note, does the pcmcia-cs package work on Solaris? 
No idea, never seen that one.

>I know that has drivers for the ORiNOCO (11Mb) cards, whether or not something funky
>needs to be done to the Solaris kernel is another matter though.
I have no idea how far wlan support goes in Solaris 2.6 - I only ever tried the pcwlan driver and that comes without useful documentation.

have fun
Michael



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