Mr. Z writes:
> I've installed the 2008.05 build on my old Dell Inspiron 600m, which uses an
> Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG card. The OS comes with NWAM enabled, and I can't
> seems to get the OS to recognize the card. I'm guessing it doesn't have the
> correct driver.
Try running these commands to see if there's an "iwi0" interface
present.
pfexec ifconfig -a
pfexec dladm show-link
pfexec dladm scan-wifi
> Now, as I mentioned already - this is my very first attempt at using a
> Linux/Unix OS. (BTW - Is OpenSolaris Linux or Unix - and what's the
> difference
It's UNIX, and traces its lineage through both AT&T System V and BSD.
Linux is a completely different operating system originally written by
Linus Torvalds. (There's a lot more historical information -- more
than you probably care to read -- on wikipedia.)
> - (great - now you really know how much of a newbie I am).)
> Anyway - being that I've never used OpenSolaris or any similar OS before,
> how exactly do I find, install & configure the driver? I can transfer it to
> the laptop via a USB stick once I download it. But then what?
OpenSolaris already comes with the iwi driver for that card, so I
don't think that's the problem. It's likely that there's a
configuration problem.
> As a side note - I've always felt that no matter what your OS, anti-virus
> software should be installed. Can someone point me to an Open Source A/V
> application that I can install and run on OpenSolaris?
Good luck on that. Unless you're scanning for viruses in Windows
files that you're storing on your OpenSolaris system, I don't think
such a thing reasonably exists.
UNIX isn't Windows.
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