[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, jay <jay at m5.chicago.il.us> wrote:
>
> Esteemed Colleagues,
>
> Yesterday I booted my new laptop (well, new to me) from the latest
> hipster iso, intending to proceed immediately therefrom to an
> installation.  I noticed, alas, that the system had no knowledge of my
> wireless network device.  This makes the system useless for my
> computer, it is, after all, a laptop, it is a portable device that on
> occasion literally sits atop my lap, it has to be able to connect to a
> network without there being an Ethernet cable stuck into it.  The
> Device Driver Utility (or whatever it's called, I don't have it on the
> screen anymore, otherwise I would be running OpenIndiana and would
> therefore be unable to send this e-mail) noted, correctly, the
> existence of a
>
>   Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
>
> but it had no driver for it.

There has been some work to user NDIS wrapper:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/3367

>
> I have installed both LinuxMint and OpenSUSE on this computer, and in
> both cases, having previously placed the Broadcom drivers and the
> b43-fwcutter program in an accessible area, I was able to use
> b43-fwcutter to place the drivers into /lib/firmware, and then these
> Linux systems were able to see my wireless device.
>
> OpenIndiana, it seems to me, should be able to do something similar.
> It cannot be that Openindiana has a problem with closed-source
> drivers, because the first thing I see when the X Window System comes
> up, for a split-second, is the Nvidia logo, visible proof that
> closed-source drivers are welcome in OpenIndiana.  So what is the
> procedure for making the drivers for my laptop's wireless device
> available to OpenIndiana, so I can install them, first on the
> installation environment, and then on the installed OS?  I have a zfs
> filesystem (thank you, ZOL) that can be used for communication between
> my Linux systems and an OpenIndiana system (or FreeBSD, but FreeBSD
> also understands ext2 and LVM).  Thank you in advance for any and all
> replies.
>
>                         Jay F. Shachter
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