James C. Liu, IHV OEM Engineering wrote: > 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. Hi, James,
Please send output of "/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v" to me, then I can check it. Thanks, Michael > 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 >
