Garrett D'Amore ???:
>I'm responsible for Tadpole's current set of wireless LAN drivers, and I have >a couple of questions. > >1) MiniPRISM 2.5 devices. We have these in _our_ laptops (SPARC and x86 >both), and I have a Solaris driver which works well at least on SPARC >machines. (We've had issues with x86 needing special ACPI hooks to enable the >radio, etc.) Do other folks have these devices such that there would be >interest in open sourcing these drivers? I've made the case for this already >with mgmt, but it would be nice to know what plans the community has. > > I guess not so much folks have those kind of card since I have never seen any community user ask for such a driver. In fact, I have developed a pciwl dirver which supports prism 2.5 chipset for sun internal use. This driver works well on my PCI prism 2.5 wifi card both in x86 and sparc machine. Now I have merged that pciwl driver with the pcwl driver and will post the new version of pcwl on opensolaris later. So the next version of pcwl will support prism 2.5 BTW, I also don't know how to enable the radio. so on Tadpole x86 laptop, the driver may not work correctly if the radio is off. >2) WLAN configuration UI. I wrote Tadpole's Java application for managing >WLAN stuff (kind of primitive, but it is easier for some folks that a command >line.) I'm considering updating this tool to support wificonfig. (I've been >working on a GTK version, which is a lot faster than the Java version, as >well.) Does such a beast already exist somewhere, or is it already being >developed by Sun? If not, how much interest is there in having Tadpole/GD >contribute our work in this regard to OpenSolaris. (No guarantees here; I can >only ask mgmt.) > > > inetmenu in opensolaris is a GUI tool to config wireless&wire network. It supports wificonfig. see: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/inetmenu/ Anyway, you can contribute your driver , you config tool, and any other to the opensolaris community. It is good to provide an extra choice for the user. -Brian >Thanks much. > > >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >laptop-discuss mailing list >laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
