I am running the atheros driver and it works well for me on my HP dv6000 laptop. I have a 64 bit laptop, so I added a 32 bit boot entry to my grub menu.lst, to use until the 64 bit driver is available. You can check whether you are currently running in 64 bit mode by running "isainfo -k". You can also "grep SunOS /var/adm/messages" to check what the last boot message indicated.
If you want to add a 32 bit boot option , heres how: make a copy of /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst edit /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst Copy your current OpenSolaris entry to make a new entry. This should be 4 lines that are bracketed by "ADDED BY BOOTADM" comments. In your new entry, remove $ISADIR/ from the kernel$ and module$ lines. If you want this to be your default boot, and your menu.lst file contains "default 0", make sure the new entry is the first (zero'th) entry in the file. For example, my menu.lst file now contains these two entries for OpenSolaris: title OpenSolaris 2008.05 snv_86_rc3 IA32 bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/boot_archive #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- title OpenSolaris 2008.05 snv_86_rc3 AMD64 bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive #---------------------END BOOTADM-------------------- On your next boot, you can pick either the 32 bit or 64 bit boot. HTH, David Lutz ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy <judy.c...@sun.com> Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 1:34 am Subject: Re: [laptop-discuss] Atheros AR242x support To: Eiji Ota <eijiota at comcast.net> Cc: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > From the device ID, your wifi card might use AR5007 chipset. A binary > package is avaible for ar5007, but only 32bit is available now. Could > you try with it? Here is the link. > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/ath-x86-ar5007eg-pkg.tar.gz > > Regards, > Judy > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
