> Chris Parman wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I have a HP Pavillion (ze5375 notebook. I have > actually got the built-in ethernet working with a > 3rd-party driver. Now the issue is I can't seem to > locate a driver (for Solaris 10/x86) for the built in > wireless ethernet device. According to Windows XP, > the wireless ethernet device is a Intersil > Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset. I'm wondering > if anyone knows where I might the appropriate driver? > By the way, when I execute "prtconf -pv", the > wireless ethernet device doesn't show up. > > > > Regards, > > > > -Chris > > > > > > > Below is a quote from an e-mail I sent to the > "opensolaris-discuss" list > on 10-14-05. It is still currently good. This is > what I used worked in > my HP Pavilion ze4430 Laptop. > > "Just wanted to post my findings on getting my laptop > wifi working. I > have an HP pavilion ze4430 which came with a > "Broadcom" wifi "mini-pci" > card internally. After reading about the "Solaris > Wireless Driver for > the Atheros 52xx Chipset (ath)" ref > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireles > s/ I searched ebay > and came across a company that has generic "mini-pci" > cards with the > Atheros 5212 chip. I purchased the card, removed the > old Broadcom card, > loaded the SUNWatheros package and it just worked.
I'm suprised you got away with replacing the mini-pci card in the HP laptop. I know certain models of HP laptops will detect third party wireless cards and prevent the laptop from booting at the prom level giving an error message "Please replace the wireless card with HP authentic part". Now which models of HP and/or Compaq laptops are known to do this is not documented. I don't think IBM does this with their laptops and most of the generic laptops do not either. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org
