Alonso Corredor Vazquez wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Unfortunately I've gave up on OpenSolaris, the lack of support for the
> Broadcom NICs killed it for me, as both my computers have 4311 cards and 64
> bit CPUs, and there is no support for the 4311 when using AMD64 code.
>
> Looking for an alternative I installed Fedora 10, and found the Broadcom
> drivers for it:
>
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>
> Quoting Broadcom's website:
>
> "The hybrid binary file is agnostic to the specific version of the Linux
> kernel because it is designed to perform all interactions with the operating
> system through operating-system-specific files and an operating system
> abstraction layer file. All Linux operating-system-specific code is provided
> in source form, making it possible to retarget to different kernel versions
> and fix operating system related issues."
>
> To me that sounds a lot like "It can be ported into OpenSolaris". However,
> software development is not one of my strengths (I'm a networker, don't know
> anything about software development), so it is WAY over my head.
>
> The only think keeping me away from OpenSolaris is the wireless NIC issue, I
> would jump right back into it if it were supported.
>
> Has anyone taken a look into porting those drivers into OpenSolaris???
>
It might be technically possible (but probably non-trivial). However,
because the code belongs to Broadcom, it would require ... interaction
with lawyers.
The implications of that are left as an exercise for the reader.
-- Garrett
