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20041010 Sunday October 10, 2004

Atheros G wireless driver completes my laptop functionality

Wow, I finally have all devices working on my Toshiba M2 laptop

This is really something that people have not expected on Solaris x86, since many of the devices have not been supported in the past. Sun had also pulled laptop support from Solaris 9.

However, Solaris x86 Engineering is working on delivering the needed functionality that has been missing. This will allow our customers to use their laptops and similar systems in a Solaris, as well as a mixed, environment.

There is still work to do on wireless and this will delay the delivery until after Solaris 10 hits the street, but we should see wireless support in S10U1 or S10U2.

It really rocks to have wireless g working on my laptop (I have internal Atheros g).

( Oct 10 2004, 02:23:34 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]

Comments:

do you have power management? suspend? is vmware working on s10?

Posted by bbr on October 11, 2004 at 01:28 AM PDT #

Will support for other wireless devices like hermes chipset cards 802.11b be included? The commercial driver availability noted on Sun's HCL was a little off-putting.

Posted by Radioactiv8 on October 29, 2004 at 05:01 AM PDT #

bbr,

There isn't any power management support yet, but it's being worked on. Most likely S10U1.

Radioactiv8,

There will be quite a bit of 802.11b support, which will include most all of the Lucent, Intersil/PrismII, and Cisco 340/350 802.11b chipsets. These are all the 16-bit non-cardbus PCMCIA cards and some internal PCI. A lot of Atheros G support, many of the popular G cards that are available. Those are cardbus.

Posted by Alan DuBoff on November 01, 2004 at 01:10 AM PST #

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