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

[Carsten Grzemba]

On 19.08.16 12:20, Jean-Pierre André  <jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> wrote: 
> 
> Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> >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
> >
> 
> This can only use WEP encryption, because the interface
> to NDIS5 is not compatible with the WPA four-step
> handshake (some user level replies from the access point
> have to be redirected to the supplicant).
> 
> I would volunteer to interface to the Broadcom supplied
> driver (hybrid-port) for which an unterface to Linux is
> available, or to a more recent open source driver for
> Linux (which supports newer Broadcom hardware, though
> the BCM4312 is said to be poorly supported).
> 
> But I have (again) to ask for help for doing that. The
> relations between net80211, mac, dladm and wpad are opaque.
> There has been a Google summer of code about WPA2, but
> I could not get anything useful from it (apparently
> WPA Enterprise requires a significant reworking of the
> relations between these modules).
> 
> Jean-Pierre
> 
> 
> 
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I tried to merge the GSoC WPA-Enterprise stuff in illumos but it did not work. Because I couldn't contact the maintainer I stopped my effort.

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