In addition, if you don't actually need a 64-bit kernel or WPA (although, support is apparently coming), then take a look at the NDIS wrapper at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/
I used this for ages on an Acer Ferrari laptop with a BCM wifi card. Worked a treat, if a little tricky to get the right Windows driver for it, and as long as I didn't need to connect with WPA. From memory, I recall it supports WEP, but don't quote me on that. Just offering an alternative solution. Brian Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Hi Alonso. > > It strikes me that there are a couple of ways to interpret your message: > > 1. You really want Broadcom 43xx support and think this needs to be on > the radar of the OpenSolaris developers. > > 2. You really want to use OpenSolaris but need net access, and the lack > of Broadcom 43xx support makes it impossible for you to use your OS of > choice. > > If the correct interpretation is the former, I of course can't help you. > If, however, it's the latter I'd really encourage you to check out the > usb and/or pc card adapters. While, early on in OpenSolaris, wifi > support was somewhat hit or miss, I've found that lately support has > been awesome -- especially with the rum and ath drivers. I've also come > to the conclusion that the power of ZFS is well worth getting a > new/alternate adapter: Too much of my time has been consumed with > bleeding-edge Linux upgrades gone awry -- perhaps along with my being a > bit too eager to 'make install'. :-) Anyhoo... As long as I can do a > rollback, I can live with something sticking out of my laptop. :-) > > BTW, to Quaker and Felix and Tim and anyone else who makes networking > JustWork(tm) in OpenSolaris, thanks!! > > Take care. > --Joanie > > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:50 -0700, 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??? >> > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- Brian Ruthven Sun Microsystems UK Solaris Revenue Product Engineering Tel: +44 (0)1252 422 312 Sparc House, Guillemont Park, Camberley, GU17 9QG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20090320/0a994116/attachment.html>
