>X-Original-To: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:30:57 PDT >From: alan pae <alanpae at ilkda.com> > >Ok, just to make sure that I don't screw this up. > >The NetGear WG511T's are plentiful and cheap on E-bay. > >But the Atheros page gives mixed signals on Solaris 10. > >One sentence reads: > >It has not yet been backported to Solaris 10 as of April 07 > >and the other sentence reads: > >Requirements > >Solaris 10 or Solaris Nevada build > >I don't mind switching cards if it will get me going with cardbus wifi on Solaris 10 11/06. > >In my mind, I switch cards, add the ath driver, and life is good. I don't >need to add anything else. Correct?
Hi Alan I have a low end Acer with a builtin Atheros wireless. I started with Solaris 10 6/06 and added the OpenSolaris atheros drivers, wificonfig and wpa packages. All workes perfectly, I can connect using WPA for example. I have since done an upgrade to Solaris 10 11/06 and they continue to work fine. I wrote a simple script to do the ifconfig/wificonfig/wpa_supplicant stuff when I boot up. Kind of a poor man's inetmenu I think. If you plan on doing WPA then you need to download (for free) and install the Solaris 10 Encryption Kit - SUNWcry from http://sun.com/download under the Security section. regards, -glenn
