I'm very excited to announce that today we've finally made one of our wireless drivers available for download from the OpenSolaris Wireless Networking web page. This is just one of the few wireless drivers that will be pre-released to the OpenSolaris Laptop community in the future in a similar way and I think it is indicative of how we're changing our development processes by making internal projects more visible outside of Sun. We hope that you'll find new ath driver and new wificonfig tool easy to use and will provide us with valuable feedback that will help us to get these components eventually integrated into Solaris with the highest quality.

Along with this release, we've also created new OpenSolaris Laptop Community. I encourage people interested in running Solaris on their laptops to subscribe to laptop-discuss@opensolaris.org and start using it.

Note that this is still work in development, and things may change before this gets putback into Solaris. Also, you may encounter some issues with the driver, but so far it has been extremely stable and a lot of work has been put into testing it in various configurations.

Have fun!

PS: If you're looking for a replacement mini-PCI card for your laptop I recommend getting Wistron's CM9 card based on the Atheros 5213 chipset. It works flawlessly on my Ferrari 3400 and I know a few other engineers in the Solaris Kernel Group who are successfully using these or similar cards.

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