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Old 24th May 2008
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Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
The only problem I see with 80211N is that most drivers I know of only have A/B/G cards listed in there cards known to work sections.

But it is still good that i can use the thing wired as well and just have one
adapter for my Boyfriends PC runnign XP or Vista so ill still be safe and
be able to use that router and just keep my BSDServer wired
and my Solaris Box Wired


A friend of mine told me that

Its very tricky to get any wireless card working for a Linux or UNIX based system.

Especially for UNIX, since it's usually runs on servers hardwired to the network,

Not a personal computer connecting wirelessly.

On the Open Solaris site, they list the few wireless cards they currently support:

http://solaris-x86.org/software/drivers/





Solaris WiFi team is working on adding support for some of the most popular wireless network cards to Solaris. All of the drivers and tools produced by the team will be pre-released to the OpenSolaris community and then integrated into Solaris.

At the moment there is support for:

Atheros 52xx Chipset,
* Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 Chipset,
* Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG Chipsets,
* 32-bit PC Cards.
* Unless you get one of the specific Atheros or Intel chipsets on your wireless card, it's going to be a crapshoot if it works or not.


At any rate,
the wireless router i mentioned would work fine.(he says)

The USB wireless device is somewhat slower and bulkier than a card you could put into your system though,

But they will work. For a laptop though, I'd prefer a built-in wireless or PCMCIA or other PC card ,
rather than have an external device dangling off.

Those are better for desktops that you don't move around and aren't near enough to the router to hardwire it.

And it sounds like it makes some sense
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