Peter Memishian wrote: > > I'm not sure the progress of USB wifi support though, for there are a > > number of adapters with the above chipsets available in USB form. Maybe > > someone here can tell me how well USB wifi adapters are supported, > > because some users don't have PCMCIA, Mini-PCI, or ExpressCard slots, > > and USB is the only option. > > There is a zyd driver for ZyDAS USB available which supports a variety of > products from 3com, Airlink, Linksys, Zyxel and others; see > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/zyd/ for details. > BTW, it was contributed by Charles University in Prague -- many thanks > to them! > Right, and we will enhance this driver (zyd) to support both ZD1211 and ZD1211B chipsets to cover more cards based on ZyDAS chipset (Currently, only ZD1211 chipset is supported). We will enhance the driver's functions to support both WEP and WPA too.
Besides, we are also working on Ralink RT2500USB/RT2501USB/RT5201USB chipsets based USB-WiFi cards, when we finish it, even the WiFi of Intel's $199 Classmate PC will be supported in Solaris. ;-) -- Quaker > -- > meem > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
