Hi All, Wireless Solaris is one of the coolest things ever seen!! Thx for these drivers. And now the problem: I've got a Dlink dwl-520 PCI Wireless card, bought because of the support on OpenSolaris for the Atheros chipset.
I've happily ran for about a month the card switching among the new releases of Solaris Express as they became available. Till b_33 everything worked rock solid. Then a big failure with the hardware of the Atheros host computer, i've changed the mainboard (from a Via Kt400 to a SiS741 one), and installed b_34. The issue is this: if /etc/hostname.ath0 is there, booting causes something i call a kernel panic, it writes something very fast on the screen, then syncs disks and reboot. I really wasnt able to read what's on the screen before the reset as it is too fast. After many reboots like these, i booted in failsafe, mounted root fs and tried to understand what's going on. Among one of the changes i've removed /etc/hostname.ath0 and rebooted. Everything has gone up ok this time. When in JDS, from the terminal i've tried this: ifconfig ath0 plumb ifconfig ath0 inet 10.0.0.4 up wificonfig -i ath0 connect hctech wificonfig -i ath0 showstatus route add default 10.0.0.150 Everything's ok , and i'm using without any problem my wireless conn putting those commands in a script that i launch when in JDS. I just want to let devs know of this issue and, if possible get some help to make everything work like before. ah, forgotting important things: the issue happen either using wificonfig 0.1 or wificonfig 0.2 and SUNWatheros binary packages 0.1 or 0.2 Sincerely Alex
