Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
Ouch.. No insult intended, i apologize mr. Tribble. I shouldn't read and respond during business meetings ;-) -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Peter Tribble [mailto:peter.trib...@gmail.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:57 Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Onderwerp: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM, the outsider wrote: > And this one seems to have it working too: > http://www.renatomorano.net/?p=291 > > Funny thing is that Peter dribble is mentioned in that page. He's on > this list too? > Tribble. Ahem. The NDIS stuff is, in general, *really* old. My experience was mixed at best. I think it got me through an OpenSolaris summit, but it never worked in the office, and was pretty unstable in busy environments (eg the airport, where it would kernel panic in under a minute). > And I found this: > https://thestaticvoid.com/post/2011/06/09/wireless-802- > 1x-support-in-solaris > / > > ( I can remember that I had a laptop once where I installed OI on. It > worked with WPA out of the box for as far as I can remember) > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Carsten Grzemba [mailto:grze...@contac-dt.de] > Verzonden: vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:17 > Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > >; > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Onderwerp: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My > Wireless Network Device > > > > On 19.08.16 12:20, Jean-Pierre André > wrote: > > > > Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > >On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay wrote: > > >> > > >>Esteemed Colleagues, > > >> > > >>Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest > > >>hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an > > >>installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of > > >>my wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my > > >>computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that > > >>on occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to > > >>connect to a network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. > > >>The Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have > > >>it on the screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana > > >>and would therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, > > >>correctly, the existence of a > > >> > > >> Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY > > >> > > >>but it had no driver for it. > > > > > >There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper: > > > > > >https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367 > > > > > > > This can only use WEP encryption, because the interface to NDIS5 is > > not compatible with the WPA four-step handshake (some user level > > replies from the access point have to be redirected to the > > supplicant). > > > > I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied driver > > (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is available, or to a > > more recent open source driver for Linux (which supports newer > > Broadcom hardware, though the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported). > > > > But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The relations > > between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque. > > There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but I could not > > get anything useful from it (apparently WPA Enterprise requires a > > significant reworking of the relations between these modules). > > > > Jean-Pierre > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > I tried to merge the GSoC WPA-Enterprise stuff in illumos but it did > not work. Because I couldn't contact the maintainer I stopped my effort. > > https://github.com/cgrzemba/illumos-gate > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
the outsider wrote: And this one seems to have it working too: http://www.renatomorano.net/?p=291 This was a 32-bit driver for Broadcom, which I used as a base for the 64-bit one. The closed-source driver used SSE2 instructions which are not allowed in an OpenIndiana driver. Funny thing is that Peter dribble is mentioned in that page. He's on this list too? And I found this: https://thestaticvoid.com/post/2011/06/09/wireless-802-1x-support-in-solaris / ( I can remember that I had a laptop once where I installed OI on. It worked with WPA out of the box for as far as I can remember) The components needed for WPA (wpad, net80211, etc.) are available on OpenIndiana, but they do not support WPA2. I was saying that the NDIS5 drivers cannot be interfaced with the OpenIndiana WPA components. If it worked for you out of the box, this had to be over a native driver, not a proprietary one for Windows (and I see no reference to Broadcom in your quoted page). Jean-Pierre -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Carsten Grzemba [mailto:grze...@contac-dt.de] Verzonden: vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:17 Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana ; openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Onderwerp: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device On 19.08.16 12:20, Jean-Pierre André wrote: Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay wrote: Esteemed Colleagues, Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of my wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that on occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect to a network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. The Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it on the screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and would therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the existence of a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY but it had no driver for it. There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper: https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367 This can only use WEP encryption, because the interface to NDIS5 is not compatible with the WPA four-step handshake (some user level replies from the access point have to be redirected to the supplicant). I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied driver (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is available, or to a more recent open source driver for Linux (which supports newer Broadcom hardware, though the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported). But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The relations between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque. There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but I could not get anything useful from it (apparently WPA Enterprise requires a significant reworking of the relations between these modules). Jean-Pierre ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM, the outsider wrote: > And this one seems to have it working too: > http://www.renatomorano.net/?p=291 > > Funny thing is that Peter dribble is mentioned in that page. He's on this > list too? > Tribble. Ahem. The NDIS stuff is, in general, *really* old. My experience was mixed at best. I think it got me through an OpenSolaris summit, but it never worked in the office, and was pretty unstable in busy environments (eg the airport, where it would kernel panic in under a minute). > And I found this: > https://thestaticvoid.com/post/2011/06/09/wireless-802- > 1x-support-in-solaris > / > > ( I can remember that I had a laptop once where I installed OI on. It > worked > with WPA out of the box for as far as I can remember) > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Carsten Grzemba [mailto:grze...@contac-dt.de] > Verzonden: vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:17 > Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana >; > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Onderwerp: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless > Network Device > > > > On 19.08.16 12:20, Jean-Pierre André > wrote: > > > > Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > >On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay wrote: > > >> > > >>Esteemed Colleagues, > > >> > > >>Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest > > >>hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an > > >>installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of > > >>my wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my > > >>computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that > > >>on occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect > > >>to a network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. > > >>The Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it > > >>on the screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and > > >>would therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the > > >>existence of a > > >> > > >> Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY > > >> > > >>but it had no driver for it. > > > > > >There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper: > > > > > >https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367 > > > > > > > This can only use WEP encryption, because the interface to NDIS5 is > > not compatible with the WPA four-step handshake (some user level > > replies from the access point have to be redirected to the > > supplicant). > > > > I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied driver > > (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is available, or to a > > more recent open source driver for Linux (which supports newer > > Broadcom hardware, though the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported). > > > > But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The relations > > between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque. > > There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but I could not get > > anything useful from it (apparently WPA Enterprise requires a > > significant reworking of the relations between these modules). > > > > Jean-Pierre > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > I tried to merge the GSoC WPA-Enterprise stuff in illumos but it did not > work. Because I couldn't contact the maintainer I stopped my effort. > > https://github.com/cgrzemba/illumos-gate > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
And this one seems to have it working too: http://www.renatomorano.net/?p=291 Funny thing is that Peter dribble is mentioned in that page. He's on this list too? And I found this: https://thestaticvoid.com/post/2011/06/09/wireless-802-1x-support-in-solaris / ( I can remember that I had a laptop once where I installed OI on. It worked with WPA out of the box for as far as I can remember) -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Carsten Grzemba [mailto:grze...@contac-dt.de] Verzonden: vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:17 Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana ; openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Onderwerp: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device On 19.08.16 12:20, Jean-Pierre André wrote: > > Aurélien Larcher wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay wrote: > >> > >>Esteemed Colleagues, > >> > >>Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest > >>hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an > >>installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of > >>my wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my > >>computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that > >>on occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect > >>to a network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. > >>The Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it > >>on the screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and > >>would therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the > >>existence of a > >> > >> Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY > >> > >>but it had no driver for it. > > > >There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper: > > > >https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367 > > > > This can only use WEP encryption, because the interface to NDIS5 is > not compatible with the WPA four-step handshake (some user level > replies from the access point have to be redirected to the > supplicant). > > I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied driver > (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is available, or to a > more recent open source driver for Linux (which supports newer > Broadcom hardware, though the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported). > > But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The relations > between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque. > There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but I could not get > anything useful from it (apparently WPA Enterprise requires a > significant reworking of the relations between these modules). > > Jean-Pierre > > > > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > I tried to merge the GSoC WPA-Enterprise stuff in illumos but it did not work. Because I couldn't contact the maintainer I stopped my effort. https://github.com/cgrzemba/illumos-gate ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
http://forum2.kingofcoders.com/archiver/?tid-854.html Seems someone had it running? -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Carsten Grzemba [mailto:grze...@contac-dt.de] Verzonden: vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:17 Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana ; openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Onderwerp: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device On 19.08.16 12:20, Jean-Pierre André wrote: > > Aurélien Larcher wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay wrote: > >> > >>Esteemed Colleagues, > >> > >>Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest > >>hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an > >>installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of > >>my wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my > >>computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that > >>on occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect > >>to a network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. > >>The Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it > >>on the screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and > >>would therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the > >>existence of a > >> > >> Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY > >> > >>but it had no driver for it. > > > >There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper: > > > >https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367 > > > > This can only use WEP encryption, because the interface to NDIS5 is > not compatible with the WPA four-step handshake (some user level > replies from the access point have to be redirected to the > supplicant). > > I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied driver > (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is available, or to a > more recent open source driver for Linux (which supports newer > Broadcom hardware, though the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported). > > But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The relations > between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque. > There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but I could not get > anything useful from it (apparently WPA Enterprise requires a > significant reworking of the relations between these modules). > > Jean-Pierre > > > > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > I tried to merge the GSoC WPA-Enterprise stuff in illumos but it did not work. Because I couldn't contact the maintainer I stopped my effort. https://github.com/cgrzemba/illumos-gate ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
On 19.08.16 12:20, Jean-Pierre André wrote: > > Aurélien Larcher wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay wrote: > >> > >>Esteemed Colleagues, > >> > >>Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest > >>hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an > >>installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of my > >>wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my > >>computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that on > >>occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect to a > >>network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. The > >>Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it on the > >>screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and would > >>therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the > >>existence of a > >> > >> Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY > >> > >>but it had no driver for it. > > > >There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper: > > > >https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367 > > > > This can only use WEP encryption, because the interface > to NDIS5 is not compatible with the WPA four-step > handshake (some user level replies from the access point > have to be redirected to the supplicant). > > I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied > driver (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is > available, or to a more recent open source driver for > Linux (which supports newer Broadcom hardware, though > the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported). > > But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The > relations between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque. > There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but > I could not get anything useful from it (apparently > WPA Enterprise requires a significant reworking of the > relations between these modules). > > Jean-Pierre > > > > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > I tried to merge the GSoC WPA-Enterprise stuff in illumos but it did not work. Because I couldn't contact the maintainer I stopped my effort. https://github.com/cgrzemba/illumos-gate ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
On 08/19/16 01:19 PM, Jean-Pierre André wrote: I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied driver (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is available, or to a more recent open source driver for Linux (which supports newer Broadcom hardware, though the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported). But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The relations between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque. There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but I could not get anything useful from it (apparently WPA Enterprise requires a significant reworking of the relations between these modules). Hi. If you want to work on Broadcom driver, I think you'd better ask for help on develo...@lists.illumos.org . -- Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay wrote: Esteemed Colleagues, Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of my wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that on occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect to a network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. The Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it on the screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and would therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the existence of a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY but it had no driver for it. There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper: https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367 This can only use WEP encryption, because the interface to NDIS5 is not compatible with the WPA four-step handshake (some user level replies from the access point have to be redirected to the supplicant). I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied driver (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is available, or to a more recent open source driver for Linux (which supports newer Broadcom hardware, though the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported). But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The relations between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque. There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but I could not get anything useful from it (apparently WPA Enterprise requires a significant reworking of the relations between these modules). Jean-Pierre ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay wrote: > > Esteemed Colleagues, > > Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest > hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an > installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of my > wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my > computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that on > occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect to a > network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. The > Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it on the > screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and would > therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the > existence of a > > Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY > > but it had no driver for it. There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper: https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367 > > I have installed both LinuxMint and OpenSUSE on this computer, and in > both cases, having previously placed the Broadcom drivers and the > b43-fwcutter program in an accessible area, I was able to use > b43-fwcutter to place the drivers into /lib/firmware, and then these > Linux systems were able to see my wireless device. > > OpenIndiana, it seems to me, should be able to do something similar. > It cannot be that Openindiana has a problem with closed-source > drivers, because the first thing I see when the X Window System comes > up, for a split-second, is the Nvidia logo, visible proof that > closed-source drivers are welcome in OpenIndiana. So what is the > procedure for making the drivers for my laptop's wireless device > available to OpenIndiana, so I can install them, first on the > installation environment, and then on the installed OS? I have a zfs > filesystem (thank you, ZOL) that can be used for communication between > my Linux systems and an OpenIndiana system (or FreeBSD, but FreeBSD > also understands ext2 and LVM). Thank you in advance for any and all > replies. > > Jay F. Shachter > 6424 N Whipple St > Chicago IL 60645-4111 > (1-773)7613784 landline > (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice > j...@m5.chicago.il.us > http://m5.chicago.il.us > > "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur" > > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device
Esteemed Colleagues, Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an installation. I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of my wireless network device. This makes the system useless for my computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that on occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect to a network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it. The Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it on the screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and would therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the existence of a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY but it had no driver for it. I have installed both LinuxMint and OpenSUSE on this computer, and in both cases, having previously placed the Broadcom drivers and the b43-fwcutter program in an accessible area, I was able to use b43-fwcutter to place the drivers into /lib/firmware, and then these Linux systems were able to see my wireless device. OpenIndiana, it seems to me, should be able to do something similar. It cannot be that Openindiana has a problem with closed-source drivers, because the first thing I see when the X Window System comes up, for a split-second, is the Nvidia logo, visible proof that closed-source drivers are welcome in OpenIndiana. So what is the procedure for making the drivers for my laptop's wireless device available to OpenIndiana, so I can install them, first on the installation environment, and then on the installed OS? I have a zfs filesystem (thank you, ZOL) that can be used for communication between my Linux systems and an OpenIndiana system (or FreeBSD, but FreeBSD also understands ext2 and LVM). Thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice j...@m5.chicago.il.us http://m5.chicago.il.us "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur" ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Looking back at the past 8 months...
Hi people, > On 19 Aug 2016, at 09:29, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > If you fell like learning how to contribute to oi-userland and want to > help out: these font packages are very easy components, thus perfect > for getting started. > Also there is always a short-list of components in need of a small bump ;) If you feel that you could try it out, I would encourage you to do so even if you don't run OpenIndiana. i put together a little HOWTO to get development enviroment up and running as easy as possible. URL: https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/blob/oi/hipster/doc/vagrant.md Contributing can't be easisr enough now. Cheers, Adam ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking back at the past 8 months...
Hello, just a word, feeling very good when looking at this list: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Migration+of+consolidations+to+oi-userland and remembering that 8 months ago the number of items left to migrate was 124 ... but it was three times as many components in total. So to recap: 1) we -- ~99% Alexander ? ;p -- migrated the entire JDS consolidation to oi-userland, and beyond \o/ 2) we took care of most of the X11 consolidation, "almost" on par with the S12_98 changeset of the Solaris X11 team but not quite :) This is again an opportunity to thank them and especially Alan for his kind support. Adding all the JDS and X11 components we migrated something like 300 packages... maybe more since I recall rebasing 320+ commits just in my X11 branch ... and this excludes components migrated by Alexander. Also: - Firefox was ported by Martin, - Thunderbird, Pulseaudio, Git, PHP, Perl, Python, GCC, Clang, plenty o' Web+DB+Network software and more... were updated - then MATE was integrated (!), - and we even got "hipster" languages like Go :) OpenIndiana is moving forward :) There are still a few packages left on the list, mainly fonts and also these input-methods packages if they are still any relevant.. If you fell like learning how to contribute to oi-userland and want to help out: these font packages are very easy components, thus perfect for getting started. Also there is always a short-list of components in need of a small bump ;) So that was it, just a happy message. Kind regards Aurélien -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
