Folks: Just wanted to report how happy I was today with my new purchases of some very inexpensive pcmcia wifi-G cards.
It began when my colleagues and I headed over to Fry's Electronics during lunch to pick up a couple of Airlink 101 AWLC4130 wifi cards. They were on sale for just $14 ea. limit 2 per person. When I got home to test them, they showed up as Atheros 5212/5213 chipset devices and I was immediately able to use WEP and access my home wifi network and get out. Feeling good about wifi, I decided to look in my spare-parts bin. I had some older AWLC3026 cards whichI bought last year but there was no driver then. I tried them again and saw that /usr/X11/bin/scanpci said they were Marvell/Libertas cards. So I checked Opensolaris.ORG and found out about the new malo driver. So I downloaded both the malo 1.3 firmware and v0.1 source tarballs, built it as instructed and got those cards to work and link up. The malo-0.1 driver did lock up my entire OS when I attempted to use inetmenu to reconfigure a 2nd time. The first time seems to be fine. But overall, I was quite happy that I could use these cards now as well. But not a bad experience with wifi today. Just thought you might want to change the OpenSolaris report for malo driver and also add the airlink 101 entry to the ath driver supported HCL. -James -- +------------------------------------------------+ | James C. Liu, Ph.D., Solaris IHV OEM Engr'ng | | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | | 17 Network Circle, UMPK-17-207 | | Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA | | +1-650-786-5179 Direct, +1-650-786-5747 FAX | +------------------------------------------------+
