[OpenIndiana-discuss] Greetings and question

[Ben Taylor]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Marc Lobelle <marc.lobelle at uclouvain.be> wrote:
> Good morning all of you,
>
> I'm new to this list but using various versions of SunOS and Solaris since
> the eighties, the last years mainly solarisx86 and opensolaris on servers,
> desktops and laptops.
>
> I have let several useful add-ons be developed over the years by my master
> students as master theses, such as camera support, IP over usb, and recently
> wifi authentication with EAP-TTLS and EAP-PEAP.
> Unfortunately the opensolaris version used as starting point for the last
> development is not available anymore.
>
> Actually, I'm not too happy with the apparent changes of policy of Oracle in
> comparison with what SUN used to do in recent years, so, I'm trying to
> switch to openindiana.
>
> As a first step, I would like to move to open indiana, my hp mini 5101. I
> tried last WE and first I asked the available tool if the hardware of this
> netbook is supported. The answer was yes except the 3 network interfaces
> (marvel Yucon gigabit interface, broadcom 4322AGN wifi interface and HP
> un2400 3G interface) which would mean that openindiana is completely useless
> on this computer.
>
> However, on http://wiki.openindiana.org:8080/display/oi/Ethernet+Networking,
> one says the the yge driver supports the Marvel Yucon interface
>
> on http://wiki.openindiana.org:8080/display/oi/WiFi, I do not see any
> support for the Broadcom interface
>
> So my questions are:
> 1. should yge work with the marvel Yucon88E8072 interface of the 5101
> 2. are there drivers nearly ready to be announced for the broadcom 4322AGN
> wifi interface and HP un2400 3G interface ?  and, if not, are there other
> cards that are supported: I assume that these little cards can easily be
> replaced if I remove the keyboard.

Most likely.  In the meantime, you could find one of the zydas zd1211b
USB wifi adapters.  They work quite well.

> 3. When all this wil work, should I try to port the EAPTTLS/EAP PEAP
> developments to openIndiana or is somebopdy else already busy with this.µ

Boy, that is great news.