First off, you're running Solaris 10, not OpenSolaris. While Solaris 10
is the best "stable" version of the OS, it lacks support for a lot of
recent hardware. Some of this is improving, but generally, the best
hardware support will be found in the OpenSolaris product. (I recommend
using Solaris Express Community Edition build 74 or later.)
Now, that said, there are some issues, because you apparently have a
very new laptop:
*) Intel 4965 wifi is in progress, but is not yet published. Soon,
I'm told. but I've not heard any concrete plans to backport to S10.
*) Bluetooth. Its still a work in progress. There maybe some
downloadable bits somewhere, but I doubt they are useful for anything yet.
*) Webcam. Some cameras are supported in OpenSolaris. Some
aren't. Its a crapshoot which you have on your laptop.
*) RTL8101. Should Just Work. If it doesn't, let me know and we
can investigate further. (OpenSolaris only. Solaris 10 may lack the
necessary supporting bits in the rge driver.)
Anyway, hopefully support will get better soon. But definitely run
OpenSolaris on this, not S10. S10 will probably never have all the
laptop features we are currently putting into OpenSolaris.
-- Garrett
James Cornell wrote:
> It wont support the webcam, or the bluetooth. It's not even ready
> for that. They are about to release the wifi drivers to the public.
> As for the network, it's probably supported but has a PCI ID that
> isn't in the driver database. Both wifi and lan will work with some
> temporary patience. Please run prtconf -pv, and
>
> Btw wpa is not working yet on that card, there's a bug in the current
> release. You'd need to wait for B76 of OpenSolaris. You'll have
> zero luck with regular Solaris unless someone has backported support
> for that newest Intel wifi, it hasn't been done, it will take time if
> it even happens. As for the lan, more luck with that, but for other
> frilly stuff, not even Linux supports most webcams, so don't expect it.
>
> James
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Reham mohamed Abdalla wrote:
>
>
>> Hello ,
>> I bought a Toshiba Satellite A200-13O laptop 2 weeks ago I
>> successfully installed Solaris 10 11/06 release but It didn't
>> recognize the NIC card, wireless card , bluetooth, or even the web
>> cam . I found while I searching this forum two links for the
>> Realtek RTL8101 NIC card I didn't try yet but I downloaded them &
>> will try them tomorrow, but I couldn't find any drivers for the
>> wireless card ( Intel Wireless WIFI link 4965AGN) or the bluetooth
>> driver or even the embedded web cam
>> could you help me to get these drivers, or guide me where I can buy
>> them if they aren't downloaded for free
>> thanks for your help
>> regards
>> rabdalla
>>
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