Hello All, I have been working on getting wireless to work on my Dell D600 running Solaris Express Devloper Edition 05/07 (snv_64a) X86 using http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/Wireless_Success.pdf
I could not get the driver to attach # add_drv -i '"pci14e4,4324"' bcmndis devfsadm: driver failed to attach: bcmndis Warning: Driver (bcmndis) successfully added to system but failed to attach # grep bcmndis /etc/driver_aliases bcmndis "pci14e4,4324" I tried downloading various drivers from Dell ftp.dell.com/network and building the bcmndis driver and still no luck. I finally figured it out from the output of /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x03 function 0x00: vendor 0x14e4 device 0x4324 Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g CardVendor 0x1028 card 0x0003 (Dell Truemobile 1450 MiniPCI) STATUS 0x0000 COMMAND 0x0006 CLASS 0x02 0x80 0x00 REVISION 0x03 BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x00 BASE0 0xfafee000 addr 0xfafee000 MEM MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x00 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x05 BYTE_0 0x01 BYTE_1 0x00 BYTE_2 0xc2 BYTE_3 0x07 The key came whilst perusing the /etc/driver_aliases file and finding the following # grep aac /etc/driver_aliases aac "pci1028,3" aac "pci1028,a" aac "pci9005,285" aac "pci9005,286" This aac driver conflicts with CardVendor 0x1028 card 0x0003 (Dell Truemobile 1450 MiniPCI) So, I copied the /etc/driver_aliases file to /etc/old.driver_aliases and deleted all the aac lines and rebooted and success. # grep bcmndis /var/adm/messages Aug 31 14:07:49 solaris-devx bcmndis: [ID 249616 kern.notice] NDIS API version: 5.0 Aug 31 14:07:49 solaris-devx bcmndis: [ID 694342 kern.notice] ndis_attach: Congratulations, Attached Okay! Aug 31 14:07:49 solaris-devx bcmndis: [ID 429477 kern.notice] Wlan MAC: 0:11:f5:xx:xx:xx Aug 31 14:07:49 solaris-devx mac: [ID 469746 kern.info] NOTICE: bcmndis0 registered I then ran #ifconfig -a and bcmndis0 was there, checked for wireless access points with # wificonfig scan and found several, though I did not have access to test. I will test further at home. Hope this helps anyone having the same issues, Don Cheesman This message posted from opensolaris.org
