I've got a Sony VGN-SZ4XWN/C laptop and use the wpi wireless driver, but I often find it less relieable than I would like. I'm using build 97 or 98 (cant recall which) of Solaris Express Community Edition, so it is possible the driver has been updated and I'm not using the latest. If that is so, I will try upgrading. (I was holding off upgrading until zfs-crypto is supported
Specific issues I have with wpi are: 1) If I do not broadcast the SSID on my home (WPA encrypted) network, I can rarely if ever connect (I've long since enabled the SSID again). On Vista this worked ok, as long as I supplied the SSID when connecting. I can't recall if I ever got this to work on Solaris, but if I did, it was very unrelieable. 2) I often find the laptop will not connect to certain wireless access points. The other week I was at Liverpool St Station in London and wanted to connect. Being a big station, there are plenty of different companies offering wireless access there. But I could not connect to the 'BT Openzone' I wanted to use, despite excellent signal strength. In the end I gave up and booted the laptop to Vista (it is configured as dual boot). Other times, the BT Openzones work fine. Despite the fact that the wireless worked immediately I installed Solaris Express, I generally find it has been more trouble to connect on Solaris than on Vista. Has anyone else had a similar experience? Dave Any thoughts on what might be up -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
