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 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
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. -- Cecilia.Hu at Sun.COM Solaris x86 Engineering, Sun Microsystems +86-10-82618200 ext. 82947
