SolarisX86 Nevada wifi configuration
I started setting up my laptop with Solaris X86 Nevada a few days back. Last thing to do was to setup the wifi.
This was breeze with support for host of native drivers available on OpenSolaris. This link gives information on native driver support
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/;jsessionid=F2A04C97E38A8CE833C526C75C91D768
Generally to setup wifi on laptop you need to do the following things
1) Determine the chipset for wifi card.
There is no good way to find this out. I went to windows partition and looked at the driver installed there so I knew it was Intel ipw2100
2) Next step was to go to the link mentioned above and download the driver for ipw.
3) Follow the routine steps of installation of package etc.
4) This should add the driver in /kernel/drv/ipw
5) wificonfig -i ipw0 autoconf setsup the configuration for the driver.
6) ifconfig ipw0 plumb and ifconfig ipw0 dhcp does the rest of it and wifi setup is done.
