More Wireless Drivers

The latest Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE 5/07) includes five new wireless drivers plus new WPA (WiFi Protected Access) personal mode support.

Wireless drivers included in SXDE 5/07 (driver download and installation not needed):

• ath - Atheros 52xx chipset
• ipw - Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 chipset New in SXDE 5/07
• iwi - Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG chipsets New in SXDE 5/07
• pcan - Cisco Aironet 340/350 New in SXDE 5/07
• pcwl - Agere 11b and PrismII 11b chipsets New in SXDE 5/07
• wpi - Intel 3945 chipset New in SXDE 5/07
• wpa support for nwam, dladm, net80211, and ath New in SXDE 5/07

See the Wireless Networking site on the Laptop community site on the OpenSolaris web site for a complete list of available wireless drivers for the Solaris OS, including ral and rtw. On that page, click the name of the driver for information about how to download, install, and configure the driver.

Supported WPA/IEEE 802.11i features:

• WPA-PSK ("WPA-Personal")
• Key management for CCMP, TKIP, WEP104, WEP40
• WPA and full IEEE 802.11i/RSN/WPA2

Access the WPA wireless network by using either dladm(1M) or nwam(1M). For more information about NWAM, see the Network Auto-Magic phase 0 project site on the OpenSolaris web site.

Posted at 08:30PM Jun 12, 2007 by alta in Device Support  |  Comments[1]