Christian Thalinger ??: > Michael Li wrote: > >> Shawn Walker wrote: >> >>> Christian Thalinger wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Today I started another round of getting my WiFi working, which is a >>>> 14e4:432b (MacBook Pro). >>>> >>>> I downloaded ndis-1.2.4 and the suggested HP driver, built it in a >>>> VirtualBox guest and booted a 2009.06 live CD. When loading the module >>>> it printed something like "attach failed" and immediately rebooted the >>>> whole system. >>>> >>>> Does anyone use ndiswrapper with this type of card successfully? >>>> >>> It has been said that only 32-bit works well (or reliably) for many >>> NDIS drivers. Have you tried forcing the system to boot 32-bit and >>> ensuring you are using a 32-bit NDIS driver? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >> By now, from all the feedback I've received, ndiswrapper can support all >> known bcm43xx (pci/pcie/cardbus) adapters under OpenSolaris 32bit kernel >> mode(including "MacBook Pro+432b"). (if your system is 64bit by default, >> you can boot into 32bit kernel mode to get it work). The wpa feature >> will be added in the future, when my bandwidth is good enough to work on >> it, you'll have only WEP encryption at present. >> OpenSolaris 2009.09 liveCD is built on build_111b, ndis-1.2.3 is the >> right version. see "NOTE" in >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis >> > > Sorry, I forgot to mention that I tried this in 32-bit. Of course I > read the NOTE before downloading ndis but I have to say that it's not > very clear what "supports Opensolaris build_122+" means. Does that mean > it does not support builds before? > > -- Christian > Yes, it means earlier builds will not work with ndis-1.2.4, for example the build 121, 120, 119.....
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