[OpenIndiana-discuss] wifi card compatibility

[Marc Lobelle]

On 16/11/17 21:08, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Marc Lobelle<marc.lobelle at uclouvain.be>
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>> Hello,
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>> I have a notebook that included an apparently unsupported SIERRA wireless
>> card. So I bought on ebay an Intel 4965 AGN card, which is in the list of
>> the compatible devices. However, both windows and openiniana seem to
>> identify it as an ATHEROS AR9287. Is it possible to have an intel card with
>> an atheros chipset ? Or does it mean that the label oh the board is fake.
>> Any way, is this card usable with open indiana ? If yes with wich driver ?
>> and what should I do to install this driver. Thanks
>>
> The arn driver seems to support AR9285 which is supported by the same ath
> driver as AR9287 in FreeBSD.
> Nonetheless the corresponding PCI id is not listed in illumos, so it will
> not attach.
Thanks Aurélien. is there a workaround this (without recompiling illumos)

Marc
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>> Marc
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