Solaris WiFi

October 10, 2005 10:50 am General

I’ve been playing a lot with setting up my new Solaris laptop. It’s so nice to have a small, light laptop that doesn’t hum like a Boeing 747. One of the things I struggled with was getting wireless working with the new wireless tools. Seemingly the driver for the Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG [not yet released on opensolaris.org] requires you to publicize the ESSID from the access point. Not only that, for some reason it didn’t like the access point handing out a different address space to my router, so configuring that as a pass through made things work like a charm.

Update: Joshua Stein points me to a fix in the BSD driver for the ESSID fix. Seems it was fixed in 1.49 – hopefully that fix can propagate into our sources. Thanks Joshua!

Also got pointed at some nice GUI network scripts from Mike Ramchand and Darren Moffat to help me on my way. And for the first time *ever*, I’m using zenity for something other than looking at my easter egg.

Next up, GNOME 2.12 and an IRC client.

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