Garrett D'Amore ??: > Michael Li wrote: >> Neal Pollack ??: >>> neha goel wrote: >>>> the result of all the three commands is given below................ >>>> plz help me out >>> here is your problem/bug/virus: >>> Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card >>> >>> Try replacing that module with a supported Atheros or Intel part. >>> ebay is your friend. >>> Broadcom is *not* >> Absolutely agree with what Neal mentioned, Broadcom is not friently >> with Opensource Community. I am investigating Broadcom 43xx native >> driver(bwi) in BSD world as well, it seems bwi is still in very early >> stage in chipsets coverage and quality, it is not a good time point >> to bring it to Solaris, I think. >> If anyone has some good news about bwi or Broadcom, please let me know. > <The following remarks are my own, and don't necessarily represent the > views of my employer.> I would like to borrow above statement for my comments below: > > I almost object to having a reverse engineered bwi in principle. The > basis for this is not that I'm opposed to reverse engineering, but > that if bwi ever reaches the point of usability, it will allow people > to continue to use these broadcom WLAN parts despite the fact that > broadcom has done everything it can to make it impossible for anyone > to use their parts on anything other than Windows. > > Put another way, I object on a matter of principle to allowing sales > of these NICs to continue for use in our platform. I'd feel totally > different if broadcom were able to offer even limited technical specs > so that design of OSS software could proceed without extraordinary > measures like those undertaken by bwi or NDIS. gdamore, I can understand your pain on OSS project from PSARC discussion.
Before I "+1" to support the "wonderful" activities happen, we need to think for those people that have already paid for some hardware from vendors like Broadcom but has no chance to replace it without additional charge, such user is not a small amount, that's why we trying to find a better solution from software side as a S/W Engineer. $10 is also money. :-) just my 2 cents, Michael > > By the way, for much the same reason I *hate* the NDIS hacks that some > people use. Yeah, it sort of works. But not very well in many cases, > and the very fact that the NDIS hack was created is a testament to the > fact that Broadcom is *impossible* to work with. > > I think it would be *wonderful* if everyone who is current limping > along with an NDIS hack for borgcom NICs sent them back to their > supplier, and publicly promised to refuse to buy any more products > containing broadcom WLAN parts until Broadcom figures out how to > enable open source developers to write drivers for their parts. (Hell, > I'd even settle for a redistributable *closed* source solution!) > > If you are even *thinking* of purchasing a mobile computer, please > tell your supplier that you will not purchase any model with a > broadcom WLAN part. (If you want to support OpenSolaris, please do > this even *if* you will be using the mobile computer with another > operating system!) The only way for Borgcom to feel the pain is to get > people to boycott them indirectly through laptop vendors. If Toshiba, > IBM, Gateway, and Dell were to stop purchasing Borgcom parts because > they were losing sales due to their presence in units, then I suspect > Borgcom would start rethink their open source strategy for WLAN parts. > (Or they would fade away into irrelevance. Either result is perfectly > acceptable in my opinion.) > > -- Garrett > >> - Michael >>>> >>>> >>>> # svcadm enable nwam >>>> >>>> # /usr/X11/bin/scanpci >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27a0 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express >>>> Memory Controller Hub >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27a2 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated >>>> Graphics Controller >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27a6 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated >>>> Graphics Controller >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1b function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27d8 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio >>>> Controller >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1c function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27d0 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1c function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27d4 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1c function 0x03: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27d6 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27c8 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27c9 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27ca >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x03: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27cb >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1d function 0x07: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27cc >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1e function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2448 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27b9 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27df >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27c4 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage >>>> Controller IDE >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x03: vendor 0x8086 device 0x27da >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0005 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x14e4 device 0x4311 >>>> >>>> Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x08 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x1092 >>>> >>>> Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x09 function 0x00: vendor 0x1180 device 0x0832 >>>> >>>> Ricoh Co Ltd Device unknown >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x09 function 0x01: vendor 0x1180 device 0x0822 >>>> >>>> Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x09 function 0x02: vendor 0x1180 device 0x0843 >>>> >>>> Ricoh Co Ltd Device unknown >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x09 function 0x03: vendor 0x1180 device 0x0592 >>>> >>>> Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter >>>> >>>> pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x09 function 0x04: vendor 0x1180 device 0x0852 >>>> >>>> Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller >>>> >>>> # >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> # ifconfig -a >>>> >>>> lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> >>>> mtu 8232 index 1 >>>> >>>> inet 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1/> netmask ff000000 >>>> >>>> iprb0: flags=201000802<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2 >>>> >>>> inet 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0/> netmask 0 >>>> >>>> ether 0:16:d3:a7:85:52 >>>> >>>> lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> >>>> mtu 8252 index 1 >>>> >>>> inet6 ::1/128 >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> laptop-discuss mailing list >>>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> laptop-discuss mailing list >>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
