Truong Q. Nguyen wrote:
> I got Nevada b27 running on the machine but not the wirelss.  This laptop has 
> the Intel wireless 2200BG and I added both the latest inetmenu and iwi 
> driver. I can plumb the device and wificonfig sees the available networks. 
> However, using inetmenu to connect to a wireless network will fail and dmesg 
> shows an error that the antenna is off. I believe the iwi driver doesn't 
> support turning on or off the antenna and the button to enable/disable the 
> antenna doesn't work once booted into Solaris.  Is there a workaround for 
> this situation? Why wouldn't the wireless button work in Solaris?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> tony
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solaris iwi driver doesn't support turn on/off the wireless radio.
you may need to use the hardware switch to turn on the wireless.

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