I purchased an atheros based Netgear WG511T (it was what was available at the local Best Buy Store) and it has worked great so far. In the mean time I still eagerly await suggestions on how to debug this issue; I am trying to read up on Dtrace and eventually kmdb but I'm not sure if I'll ever have the opportunity to become fluent with the ndis driver itself =(.
Thanks, On 9/30/06, Luc I. Suryo <luc at suryo.com> wrote: > > > Well, I should probably explain my entire experience just so everyone gets > > an idea of what is happening. I installed nevada build 48 on my hp nx9500 > > after having used linux on it for some time. Previously I used the linux > > ndiswrapper with no trouble at all. After installing solaris and the > > ndiswrapper (I downloaded a separate windows driver than the one I used in > > linux), things seemed to be fine, but after a while of using the wireless > > connection the system would hang and then reboot itself. At the time I > > wasn't sure if these were the same windows drivers that I had used before > > (they had the same name), but luckily I backed up the ones I used in linux. > > > > After reinstalling the ndiswrapper with the (apparently correct) drivers, > > things seemed to be doing better, at least for a while. Now the system no > > longer crashes, but downstream activity nearly stops all together after > > several minutes of heavy downstream activity (like downloading some large > > file). In fact, I thought it did stop all together, but if I try to SSH in > > to the laptop, I do eventually get a prompt (after about a minute). When I > > do "ifconfig -a", it prints out the info for the device, but it hangs so I > > have to Ctrl-C to exit. I can't use modunload to remove it either, and > > having ifconfig attempt to detach does nothing. > > > > I wouldn't mind running or writing a DTrace script if anyone has any > > suggestions, but I'm fairly new with dtrace and not really a kernel > > developer. Just let me know what info you would like to see; I'd love to > > learn more about this as well as get it fixed. If anyone has any ideas > > about a way to at least get it going again without rebooting the system, > > that would be a good temporary fix (and allow me to test more easily). > > > > Also, if anyone knows of a good pcmcia NIC that will work well in both x86 > > and x86_64 modes (with a native driver) I'll probably go ahead and buy it. > > > > Brandon, > > i have a HP zv500 serie.. in 32 bits i use NDIS in 64 i use a LinkSys > PCMIA model WPC55AG, this has a Atheros chip, i got it from Ebay.. > > currently in used: > > ath0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 > inet 192.168.9.10 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.9.255 > > amd64 i386 > > SunOS locotjie 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc i386 i86pc > > make sure to use OpenSolaris cardbus driver... as well the atheros > driver > > success! > > > -ls > -- Brandon Barker Phone: (859) 948-5335 GPG Key: http://bigapple.uky.edu/~brandon/my_pgp_key.html
