Re: Suns-at-Home Digest, Vol 23, Issue 1

Hello,

John Ruschmeyer <jruschme <at> comcast.net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <suns-at-home-request <at> net-kitchen.com>
> wrote:
>
>     Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:03:01 +0100
>     From: Michael Welle <mwe012008 <at> gmx.net>
>     To: suns-at-home <at> net-kitchen.com
>     Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Voyager, PCMCIA, wlan
>     Message-ID: <87zkccpqa2.fsf <at> luisa.c0t0d0s0.de>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>    
>     Hello,
>    
>     has anyone (successfully  equipped a Voyager with a wireless lan
>     adapter? The machine is running Solaris, but I'm easy with installing
>     SunOS if that is needed ;).
>
> Wow! Tough call... you're limited to a Max of Solaris 9 with a 16-bit PCMCIA
> adapter. That leaves only Wavelan, Prism, or CISCO Aironet-based cards,
> assumeing drivers even exist.  Most of that sort of development didn't happen
> until OpenSolaris.
I have received some suggestions of adapter/driver combos that might
work. Maybe it is easier to hack the driver than to fiddle with the
skirting board and to dress and lay an ethernet cable ;).

> I'd say you have two options:
> 1) NetBSD/OpenBSD, assuming they support the PCMCIA slots in the Voyager.
> 2) A Wireless Bridge, like a "Gaming Adapter" on the built-in LAN connection.
My plan is to avoid BSD.

Regards
hmw

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