>Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:18:42 -0500 >From: "Ben Taylor" <bentaylor.solx86 at gmail.com> >To: "RITESH SOOD" <rit_sood at hotmail.com> >Content-Disposition: inline >Cc: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >Subject: Re: [laptop-discuss] ath: Atheros HAL sources released? > >On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:45 PM, RITESH SOOD <rit_sood at hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Ritesh Sood wrote: >>>> does anyone have an idea when the atheros driver for Sparc platforms might be available. I have been waiting since eternity to get my DLink DWL 520 Rev. B 802.11g PCI card working on my Sun Ultra 60 (sun4u) running Solaris 10 (release 10/2008). >>> >>> You are probably better off getting something like a Dlink G730AP >>> if you need wireless on a sparc. >>> >>> I have some code that works on Solaris -9 Sparc with the Zydas >>> USB adapters (totally different code base than the open solaris >>> zyd driver, called zdwlan), but there hasn't been a pressing need >>> to follow up with it given the attitude towards sparc workstations... >> >> Well, there's no such thing as USB on a Ultra 60 :( > >Obviously, you have never tried to put a NEC based PCI >USB2.0 card in the U60. Trust me, it works.
+1 on the USB PCI cards with NEC chips. I bought a generic one about 3 years ago and it has been working just fine in my Ultra 10 with Solaris 10 for that time ! Works with usb flash drives, my canon camera, usb card reader, usb->serial adapter and lots of other things... regards, -glenn -- Glenn Satchell mailto:glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au | It's a dog eat dog Uniq Advances Pty Ltd http://www.uniq.com.au | world, and by golly, PO Box 70 Paddington NSW Australia 2021 | we better make sure tel:0409-458-580 tel:02-9380-6360 fax:02-9380-6416 | we're the dog.
