[osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

[Paul Gress]

Just wanted to post my findings on getting my laptop wifi working.  I 
have an HP pavilion ze4430 which came with a "Broadcom" wifi "mini-pci" 
card internally.  After reading about the "Solaris Wireless Driver for 
the Atheros 52xx Chipset (ath)" ref 
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ I searched ebay 
and came across a company that has generic "mini-pci" cards with the 
Atheros 5212 chip.  I purchased the card, removed the old Broadcom card, 
loaded the SUNWatheros package and it just worked.  This company has 
plenty more cards for $29.99 each as "buy it now".  I'm not affiliated 
with them, I just thought it was cheap and just worked without any 
glitches and some people might be interested.  The link for this company 
store on ebay is http://stores.ebay.com/Prime-Electronic-Components .  
They have about 10 - 15 of them posted right now, you have to scroll 
through various pages to find them.  Sorry if this sounded like a plug, 
it wasn't, I'm just so happy it works now.

Paul
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