Hi Alexander, Some vendors make it difficult to replace wireless mini-PCI cards in their laptops. I've heard about issues with IBM ThinkPads, but not HP laptops (that's what you have, right?). It sounds like your card doesn't get properly detected by Solaris. It would be interesting to know if other operating systems are able to recognize and drive your card.
- Andrei On 1/1/06, Alexander Wallace <aw at rwmotloc.com> wrote: > Hi all.. Followint the advise in this post: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2005-October/000096.html > > So i got a minipci card and installed in my laptop running solaris > express b 24 > > I tried installing the ath drivers from > > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/ > > but sadly |prtconf -vp returns nothing about | > > |pci168c > > However, /usr/bin/X11/scanpci returns usually this: > > pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x05 function 0x00: vendor 0x168c device 0x0013 > Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC > > And i say usually because if i rerun the command i sometimes get: > > pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x05 function 0x00: vendor 0x168c device 0x0013 > Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC > > pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x05 function 0x01: vendor 0x168c device 0x0013 > Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC > > And in very rare occasions i get: > > > And also sometimes i don't get anything for atheros... > > Don't know how trustworthy is the scanpci, but the fact is that i can't plumb > the card and so, i can't use it.... > > Can someone guide me in getting this card to work? > > Thanks so much in advance! > > | > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
