Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-15 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Friday 14 October 2005 08:24 pm, Paul Gress wrote: I have more to add. I sent an e-mail to the seller of the atheros cards and what he has to say is promising. Please note, I have not tested what is listed below, but I have no reason not to believe him. Again, use your own discretion.

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-14 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:25 pm, Paul Gress wrote: 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. I've heard that some laptops

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-14 Thread Jason W
It's the old vendor lock-in trick. I'm more experienced with Dells, and as far as I can tell, there is no such restriction on Dell laptops. The only problem I have seen is on the Latitude C600 (aka Inspiron 4000) which was Dell's first mini-pci model, they don't include the antenna wires, you

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Gress
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:25 pm, Paul Gress wrote: 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.

[osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-13 Thread 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

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-13 Thread Eric Enright
On 10/14/05, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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