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Operating Systems Solaris WiFi on Solaris x86 Post 302553193 by jlliagre on Wednesday 7th of September 2011 03:04:32 AM
Old 09-07-2011
It would help if you tell in the first place what wifi card or nic you have. There are some third party wifi drivers for Solaris 10 but the setup is much simpler (or sometimes achievable) under OpenSolaris/Solaris 11 Express.
 

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iwh(7D) 							      Devices								   iwh(7D)

NAME
iwh - Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100/5300 Driver DESCRIPTION
The iwh 802.11a/g/n wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Intel Shirley Peak WiFi chipset-based NIC's. Driver functions include controller initialization, wireless 802.11 infrastructure network connection, WEP and frame transmit and receive. CONFIGURATION
The iwh driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and mode. Supported 802.11b data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec. Supported 802.11g data rates are 1, 2, 5.5, 11, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 54 Mbits/sec. FILES
/dev/iwh Special character device. /kernel/drv/iwh 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/iwh 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWiwh | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D), dlpi(7P) 802.11 - Wireless LAN Media Access Control and Physical Layer Specification- IEEE, 2001. SunOS 5.11 26 Aug 2008 iwh(7D)
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