On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Darren Kenny wrote: > Hi, > > I just managed to get a MacBook Pro, and since I ordered, the specs got > updated > and I got the new spec - while this is usually a good thing, for Solaris it > turns out to not be so good. > > I have now got a Broadcom wireless card, rather than Atheros, and the Marvel > NIC > seems to be slightly different too. > > And to top it off, the built-in keyboard doesn't work in Solaris.
I discovered the same set of problems the other day. I noticed that the keyboard *is* being found in Solaris, and the HID driver attached, and if you plug an external keyboard and press the caps-lock key, the caps lock light on the internal keyboard is toggled properly. The best explanation I could find is that the Solaris HID driver provides incomplete support of the HID 1.1 protocol, and doesn't support something the new keyboard is doing when switched to that mode. Interestingly the, the keyboard and trackpad provide a MID USB device, and the trackpad seems to work perfectly - it's just the keyboard. If the problem is the HID 1.1 thing, I wonder if it's possible to either get the HID driver to leave the keyboard configured for the boot protocol, or in HID 1.0 mode. Otherwise it'll need to be fixed by extending the driver.... or I've gotten completely off track and it's something else entirely :) J.
