Garrett D'Amore ??: > Alonso Corredor Vazquez wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> Unfortunately I've gave up on OpenSolaris, the lack of support for >> the Broadcom NICs killed it for me, as both my computers have 4311 >> cards and 64 bit CPUs, and there is no support for the 4311 when >> using AMD64 code. >> >> Looking for an alternative I installed Fedora 10, and found the >> Broadcom drivers for it: >> >> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php >> >> Quoting Broadcom's website: >> >> "The hybrid binary file is agnostic to the specific version of the >> Linux kernel because it is designed to perform all interactions with >> the operating system through operating-system-specific files and an >> operating system abstraction layer file. All Linux >> operating-system-specific code is provided in source form, making it >> possible to retarget to different kernel versions and fix operating >> system related issues." >> >> To me that sounds a lot like "It can be ported into OpenSolaris". >> However, software development is not one of my strengths (I'm a >> networker, don't know anything about software development), so it is >> WAY over my head. >> >> The only think keeping me away from OpenSolaris is the wireless NIC >> issue, I would jump right back into it if it were supported. >> >> Has anyone taken a look into porting those drivers into OpenSolaris??? We know this "wl" driver and the words you quoted. > It might be technically possible (but probably non-trivial). However, > because the code belongs to Broadcom, it would require ... interaction > with lawyers. > > The implications of that are left as an exercise for the reader. There was some ineraction attempt, but did not achieve any milestone by now.
- Michael > > -- Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
