Hi Rich, BCM4401 is not support by native solaris drivers, but you can easily install the third party driver bfe: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/files/
What's the model of system are you running? We're considering if we can get the hardware and support bcm4401 natively. Regards, Crisson On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 02:44 -0800, Rich wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking at making the switch from Linux to OpenSolaris and I've got one > major gripe so far in that it doesn't detect any network devices it has > drivers for. > > This is the relevant lspci -v output from Linux on the machine: > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev > 02) > Subsystem: Dell Device 01cd > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17 > Memory at ef9fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: b44 > Kernel modules: b44 > > 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev > 01) > Subsystem: Dell Device 0007 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 > Memory at efdfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge > Kernel modules: ssb > > I know Broadcom are an arse, but they're pretty common. What's the easiest > route to a working network (preferably with the wireless and WPA2 support)? > Is there likely to be OOTB support for these soon, are there any scripts > available which retrieve the drivers and install ndiswrapper? > > Thanks -- ************************************* * Guang-Hao, Crisson Hu * * China ERI, Sun Microsystems, Inc. * * Tel: +86-10-62673095 * ************************************* _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
