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

[Jean-Pierre André]

the outsider wrote:
> And this one seems to have it working too:
> http://www.renatomorano.net/?p=291

This was a 32-bit driver for Broadcom, which I used
as a base for the 64-bit one. The closed-source driver
used SSE2 instructions which are not allowed in an
OpenIndiana driver.

> Funny thing is that Peter dribble is mentioned in that page. He's on this
> list too?
>
> 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)

The components needed for WPA (wpad, net80211, etc.) are
available on OpenIndiana, but they do not support WPA2.

I was saying that the NDIS5 drivers cannot be interfaced
with the OpenIndiana WPA components. If it worked for
you out of the box, this had to be over a native driver,
not a proprietary one for Windows (and I see no reference
to Broadcom in your quoted page).

Jean-Pierre

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