On 02/11/11 06:01, V wrote:
hi everyone,

I am a newbie to solaris, after trawling through linux and windows. I am 
planning to test Open Solaris, Solaris Express11,Soalris 10,FreeBSD in the 
coming weeks. I have recently installed Solaris Express 11 on my HP DV5000EA 
Laptop which runs on amd 64bit 1.8ghz,1gb RAM.

Everything seems to be working fine apart from Broadcom wireless, and yes I am 
aware how uneasy it is to get this working under any OS apart from windows.

My question is, Is it possible to get this broadcom chip working in 64bit 
kernel and operating system (any solaris version). I have tried a few help 
pages but no luck so far.

Someone said that FreeBSD drivers are bit flaky in 64bit BSD too, so I was 
wondering if anyone can confirm that its the same case in solaris?

I mean I would love to use solaris because it just feels so original but at the 
same time I would like to make full use of my hardware too.

Thanks for reading

Vineet
See:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+laptop/ndis
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+laptop/downloads/WirelessSuccess.pdf
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=128861 - see the second response from twisti for ndis-1.2.6

This is mostly focused on getting the Broadcom to work on 32-bit kernel - I have done it twice on an old Acer Ferrari 3400 with Osol 2009.06 and Oracle Solaris 11 Express. The latter took some minor modification to the ndis source (1.2.6) - I can send those offline if desired. I saw on the list that some have gotten it to work with OI, as well, but not sure of the version.

But the first link does mention a 64-bit version. I just couldn't seem to track down the Win 64-bit Broadcom driver and the 32-bit kernel was all I needed on the laptop, so no loss there (no big memory or disk on the laptop)


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