[geeks] Solaris on x86 (was Fedora funky-ness...)

[Francois Dion]

If you have one of these:

    * Linksys Instant Wireless PC Card, Model WPC11
    * Netgear 802.11b Wireless PC Card, Model MA401
    * Orinoco PC Card Silver


Lynnsoft has a driver (altough it cost $):
http://www.lynnsoft.com/solaris.htm

I also hear that Sun is talking to IHVs left and right and support is 
forthcoming. Also, Centrino support is in the works and definitely in 
Sol 10. Another possibility is using a NetBSD driver and porting it to 
Solaris. I'm assuming there are wireless drivers for NetBSD... (it's 
relatively easy to port NetBSD drivers, it's not worth the effort to 
port FreeBSD or Linux drivers - might as well start from scratch).

Francois

Lionel Peterson wrote:

>You know, I forgot about that option...
>
>I will download it, since I have two similar laptops, and I have no real info on the laptop to save anyway...
>
>I will miss 802.11b support though...
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>I wonder if those nice folks that make wrappers for Windows 802.11b drivers to enable their use under Linux can be convinced to port that to Solaris/x86? (see http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ )
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>>From: Francois Dion <fdion at atriumwindows.com>
>>Date: 2004/02/17 Tue PM 03:29:29 GMT
>>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: Re: [geeks] Q: Fedora funky-ness...
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>>The Tecra 8000 is on the Sol 9 x86 list:
>>http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/views/laptop.html
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>>Might want to download (for free) the latest Solaris for x86 (or Solaris 
>>Express - Feb 04 should be out soon, with the N1 containers, very cool) 
>>and try that. Works great on my laptops. You'll need UtahGLX for the 
>>accelerated OpenGL support, but the rest is fairly straightforward on 
>>the tecra.
>>
>>Francois
>>
>>Lionel Peterson wrote:
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>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Anyone out there (aside from Bill and I) running RH Fedora? I've got it
>>>installed on a Tecra 8000 laptop (PII 266 MHz, 256 Meg RAM) and for some
>>>reason every other power-up "freezes", requiring a power-cycle get the
>>>system running...
>>>
>>>With RH 8 there were no problems on the same laptop/config...
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>      
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