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

[the outsider]

http://forum2.kingofcoders.com/archiver/?tid-854.html

Seems someone had it running? 

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Van: Carsten Grzemba [mailto:grzemba at contac-dt.de] 
Verzonden: vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:17
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Network Device



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.

https://github.com/cgrzemba/illumos-gate
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