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

[Peter Tribble]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM, the outsider <openindiana at out-side.nl>
wrote:

> And this one seems to have it working too:
> http://www.renatomorano.net/?p=291
>
> Funny thing is that Peter dribble is mentioned in that page. He's on this
> list too?
>

Tribble. Ahem.

The NDIS stuff is, in general, *really* old. My experience was mixed at
best.
I think it got me through an OpenSolaris summit, but it never worked in the
office, and was pretty unstable in busy environments (eg the airport, where
it
would kernel panic in under a minute).


> And I found this:
> https://thestaticvoid.com/post/2011/06/09/wireless-802-
> 1x-support-in-solaris
> /
>
> ( I can remember that I had a laptop once where I installed OI on. It
> worked
> with WPA out of the box for as far as I can remember)
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Carsten Grzemba [mailto:grzemba at contac-dt.de]
> Verzonden: vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:17
> Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> >;
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless
> 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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