Hi Alonso. It strikes me that there are a couple of ways to interpret your message:
1. You really want Broadcom 43xx support and think this needs to be on the radar of the OpenSolaris developers. 2. You really want to use OpenSolaris but need net access, and the lack of Broadcom 43xx support makes it impossible for you to use your OS of choice. If the correct interpretation is the former, I of course can't help you. If, however, it's the latter I'd really encourage you to check out the usb and/or pc card adapters. While, early on in OpenSolaris, wifi support was somewhat hit or miss, I've found that lately support has been awesome -- especially with the rum and ath drivers. I've also come to the conclusion that the power of ZFS is well worth getting a new/alternate adapter: Too much of my time has been consumed with bleeding-edge Linux upgrades gone awry -- perhaps along with my being a bit too eager to 'make install'. :-) Anyhoo... As long as I can do a rollback, I can live with something sticking out of my laptop. :-) BTW, to Quaker and Felix and Tim and anyone else who makes networking JustWork(tm) in OpenSolaris, thanks!! Take care. --Joanie On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:50 -0700, 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???
