Wireless access on Solaris

[DVik]

I am trying to setup my wireless connection on a Solaris 10 machine.

I have a Belkin F5D7050 on a USB port and I think I do not have the
appropriate driver to enamble it. I tried various things, like
downloading zyd or rum etc and they either failed to attach or (in
case of zyd) failed to compile and gave me plenty of syntax errors in
headers.

Any help is appriciated of how to access my wireless router and see
the NET.

I am running Solaris 10 10/09 sun10x_u8wos_08 X86 on an amd64 Dell
machine.

The relevant bits of prtconf -pv output are the following

Node 0x00000f
assigned-addresses:
8100e820.00000000.0000d400.00000000.00000020
reg:
0000e800.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.0100e820.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000020
compatible: 'pci8086,3a34.1028.283.0' +
'pci8086,3a34.1028.283' + 'pci1028,283' + 'pci8086,3a34.0' +
'pci8086,3a34' + 'pciclass,0c0300' + 'pciclass,0c03'
model: 'Universal Serial Bus UHCI compliant'
power-consumption: 00000001.00000001
fast-back-to-back:
devsel-speed: 00000001
interrupts: 00000001
max-latency: 00000000
min-grant: 00000000
subsystem-vendor-id: 00001028
subsystem-id: 00000283
unit-address: '1d'
class-code: 000c0300
revision-id: 00000000
vendor-id: 00008086
device-id: 00003a34
name: 'pci1028,283'

Node 0x000010
assigned-addresses:
8100e920.00000000.0000d080.00000000.00000020
reg:
0000e900.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.0100e920.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000020
compatible: 'pci8086,3a35.1028.283.0' +
'pci8086,3a35.1028.283' + 'pci1028,283' + 'pci8086,3a35.0' +
'pci8086,3a35' + 'pciclass,0c0300' + 'pciclass,0c03'
model: 'Universal Serial Bus UHCI compliant'
power-consumption: 00000001.00000001
fast-back-to-back:
devsel-speed: 00000001
interrupts: 00000002
max-latency: 00000000
min-grant: 00000000
subsystem-vendor-id: 00001028
subsystem-id: 00000283
unit-address: '1d,1'
class-code: 000c0300
revision-id: 00000000
vendor-id: 00008086
device-id: 00003a35
name: 'pci1028,283'

Node 0x000011
assigned-addresses:
8100ea20.00000000.0000d000.00000000.00000020
reg:
0000ea00.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.0100ea20.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000020
compatible: 'pci8086,3a36.1028.283.0' +
'pci8086,3a36.1028.283' + 'pci1028,283' + 'pci8086,3a36.0' +
'pci8086,3a36' + 'pciclass,0c0300' + 'pciclass,0c03'
model: 'Universal Serial Bus UHCI compliant'
power-consumption: 00000001.00000001
fast-back-to-back:
devsel-speed: 00000001
interrupts: 00000003
max-latency: 00000000
min-grant: 00000000
subsystem-vendor-id: 00001028
subsystem-id: 00000283
unit-address: '1d,2'
class-code: 000c0300
revision-id: 00000000
vendor-id: 00008086
device-id: 00003a36
name: 'pci1028,283'

Node 0x000012
assigned-addresses:
8200ef10.00000000.feafb800.00000000.00000400
reg:
0000ef00.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.0200ef10.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000400
compatible: 'pci8086,3a3a.1028.283.0' + 'pci8086,3a3a.
1028.283' + 'pci1028,283' + 'pci8086,3a3a.0' + 'pci8086,3a3a' +
'pciclass,0c0320' + 'pciclass,0c03'
model: 'Universal Serial Bus EHCI compliant'
power-consumption: 00000001.00000001
fast-back-to-back:
devsel-speed: 00000001
interrupts: 00000001
max-latency: 00000000
min-grant: 00000000
subsystem-vendor-id: 00001028
subsystem-id: 00000283
unit-address: '1d,7'
class-code: 000c0320
revision-id: 00000000
vendor-id: 00008086
device-id: 00003a3a
name: 'pci1028,283'

[John D Groenveld]

[follow-ups set to comp.unix.solaris]

Well posted the same on comp.sys.sun.admin but might this is more
relevant group.

comp.unix.solaris is probably most relevant.

I am trying to setup my wireless connection on a Solaris 10 machine.

Most of the wireless driver work was done for Indiana and Nevada.

I know that early versions of ath(7D) work with Solaris 10, but
don't think many other WiFi drivers have been backported.
<URL:http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+laptop/ath>

You should be able to find PCI cards with the Atheros chipset on eBay.

Alternatively, you can try booting the LiveCD of the development
preview of OpenSolaris 2010.03 and see if rum(7D) attaches.
<URL:http://www.genunix.org/>

Happy hacking,
John
***@acm.org