Bruno Damour wrote: > Well, I'm pretty much in the same position. > I have a desktop/home server computer (Asus P5WDH Deluxe Mainboard) which > works with opensolaris last dev release (soon snv110) > I have a laptop (dell) from my work dualbooting winxp and opensolaris, > updated with the last dev repository. > > The first one works with the myk driver, but each time I install has to > compile it by hand before I get LAN network access. I even never tried to get > the onboard wifi working, I know it's hopeless. > > The second one (Dell Latitude D620) has a bcm4311 built-in adapter, used to > work in 32bit mode with ndis (no longer AFAIK), but of course nothing in > 64bit. > I tried (I mean bought) at least 5 different USB/PCMCIA adapters before I got > 1 to work with the malo driver. > Now, since crossbow, it no longer works, so I'm out of luck. > I mean it there are atheros drivers that seem to work but AFAIK no > possibility to by them, they cannot be find in stores (at least in France > where Iive). > I love opensolaris, but it makes my life hard to have to be plugged. > > I think the devs should at leats integrate such working drivers as malo and > have them updated to each change. > With some firmware legal issue in malo driver, it is not possible to integrate malo driver into Soalris source repo in the near future, this situation also bring trouble to maintain malo driver for every gate change, especially since crossbow integration. Similar trouble happens in ndiswrapper. > With osol-0906 coming I gave hope of malo getting upgraded before... > > Bruno > Bruno >
New malo driver for OpenSolaris-0906 is in development, will be uploaded to malo page soon. About ndiswrapper, I've seen a lot positive improvement from George White (os0342) recently, it is highly expected to provide better support for OpenSolaris 0906 in the near future. To 64bit BCM43xx support, we have plan to investigate the possiblity to integrate Broadcom wl driver in the future. Thanks, Michael
