Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:58 -0500, James Cornell wrote: > >> Cristiano Basso wrote: >> >>> Hey, >>> >>> I have a VAIO VGN-CR131E : >>> >>> * Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz >>> * Ram: 2 GB - DDR2 800MHz >>> * HD: 160 GB 5400 rpm (Serial ATA) >>> * video card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 >>> >>> When i installed SXDE, i got sound, video, wired network. But wifi and >>> webcam doesnt work. (this on a fresh install...) After that i install >>> wifi iwk driver, and its working fine. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Cristiano >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:04 AM, James Cornell <sparcdr at sparcdr.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Michael Li wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> John Malone ??: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Bluetooth isn't supported in Solaris yet to my knowledge (I believe >>>>>> there's >>>>>> support in the works). >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> John, >>>>> Can I ask a queston? >>>>> If you can play Bluetooth under OpenSolaris, what kind of application, >>>>> devices you expect to get support as soon as possible? Can you give a >>>>> wish list? >>>>> >>>>> - Michael >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> laptop-discuss mailing list >>>>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> My take is obex file transfer support will be the first. I think the >>>> hardest is the audio stack, if we chose to implement it. Windows for >>>> example didn't, but personally speaking I love being able to use my >>>> bluetooth headset on my notebook under OSX. >>>> >>>> James >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> laptop-discuss mailing list >>>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >> Great! Well, webcams generally won't work, support for 99% of them is >> basically nil due to the lack of source and necessary legwork to make >> them work via reverse engineering. >> > > Not entirely true. The current webcams used these days are UVC compliant > in so much they require firmware to be loaded before UVC is loaded. It > would be a matter for Sun to licence the firmware for redistribution and > them creating a framework to make that firmware loading/unloading > possible (as part of the UVC framework). > >
Well, interestingly enough, I have worked on the zyd driver, as well as looking at the zdwlan driver which was developed on Solaris 9/Sparc. An interesting concept that the original author of zdwlan used was to extract the firmware out of the Windows driver and stick it in a reserved space in the zdwlan driver to make sure that the firmware got loaded. It works. I used it with another one of my zydas based devices, and was able to make some progress (I got it scanning, acquiring a DHCP address to a WEP'd AP, but it didn't pass packets). Perhaps this sort of strategy could be used with webcams? Ben
