wireless on solaris

does anyone know where i can download a wireless driver for a netgear
ma301?

i've searched google but all i have found is lynnsoft's $100 driver!

any help appreciated.

How about at the Netgear site.
http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MA301.asp

Robert.....

"bryan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> does anyone know where i can download a wireless driver for a netgear
> ma301?
>
> i've searched google but all i have found is lynnsoft's $100 driver!
>
> any help appreciated.

"DLink Guru" wrote in message

> How about at the Netgear site.
> http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MA301.asp
>
> Robert.....

He has probably already been there, but those Wintel drivers on Netgear's
site aren't going to do his (as subject) Solaris box much good.

Specs state that specific card only works with Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP.
(Exception being that proprietary driver he came across for $100.)

Maybe he could see what the Linux community has done with that card and (if
lucky) might be something that could work with Solaris. Outside of that,
just ditch the card (just a cheap 11Mbs 802.11b card anyway) and go with
something that is sure to work -- like a standalone wireless-ethernet bridge
adapter.

Cheers,
Eric

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:52:11 +0000, Eric wrote:


> "DLink Guru" wrote in message
>
>> How about at the Netgear site.
>> http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MA301.asp
>>
>> Robert.....
>
> He has probably already been there, but those Wintel drivers on
> Netgear's site aren't going to do his (as subject) Solaris box much
> good.
>
> Specs state that specific card only works with Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP.
> (Exception being that proprietary driver he came across for $100.)

first place i tried...

> Maybe he could see what the Linux community has done with that card and
> (if lucky) might be something that could work with Solaris.

that's true... i have ndisdriver installed on a linux box already. i'll
download the source and see if that works.

thanks for the heads-up (feels silly because i should have thought of that
myself!)

> Outside of that, just ditch the card (just a cheap 11Mbs 802.11b card
> anyway) and go with something that is sure to work -- like a standalone
> wireless-ethernet bridge adapter.

do you mean something like a spare linksys wap11?

thanks.

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> How about at the Netgear site.
> http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MA301.asp

Did you find any useful information there?

Why do people just post random links...

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How is that a random link???? His origional post said he needed a driver for
the netgear MA301. Thats it....


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>> How about at the Netgear site.
>> http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MA301.asp
>
> Did you find any useful information there?
>
> Why do people just post random links...
>
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"bryan" wrote

> do you mean something like a spare linksys wap11?


Hi,

I'm not really familiar with the Linksys stuff since I primarily use D-Link,
but was thinking something along the lines of a DWL-810+.
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=21

I have a few of these little animals in the house that I primarily use for
game consoles. Whats nice is that it does everything internally, so
hardware connected to it see it as just a simple ethernet drop. When
friends come over and want to use the internet or do some LAN gaming, but
don't have any wireless hardware with their laptops, they can use an
ethernet cable and plug straight into one of these guys without having to do
any configuration or software installs. All you need to get up and talking
is just a working ethernet port.

(Not specifically recommending this model, or even D-Link, but just using it
as example. The above device, however, can be found for about $65 if you
shop around the internet. They also have a similiar model, but uses 802.11g.
As I only needed these animals to pass internet traffic, found 802.11b to be
just fine.)

Anyway, the idea of the wireless-ethernet bridge came to mind as I played
with Solaris (the free x86 version that Sun released) a few years back. I
was never able to make full use out of all the hardware that I put Solaris
on since there weren't much Solaris-based drivers for the specific hardware
in that box. Eventually, got most of the hardware up and running, but not
to it's full capability. Don't know if its still the case, but the driver
issues with (x86) Solaris was a major PITA at the time. Many of the drivers
that I eventually found were beta drivers ported from Linux-based beta
drivers. LOL, if I remember right, the video driver I ended up using was
like v0.02b. Of course, even getting that up and running required compiling
the source, which required a bunch of libraries to be installed beforehand.
Basically, it was a just a big mess. It worked, but not until after all
sorts of handstands, cartwheels, and backflips. Never got that box
operating anything like one of the Sparcs at work, but it was fun just
playing around with it.

Cheers!
-Eric

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> How is that a random link???? His origional post said he needed a
> driver for the netgear MA301. Thats it....

But where's the Solaris drivers? : )

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I dont use Linux, so I did not know what Solaris was......

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>> How is that a random link???? His origional post said he needed a
>> driver for the netgear MA301. Thats it....
>
> But where's the Solaris drivers? : )
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> I dont use Linux, so I did not know what Solaris was......

That's my point. It seems a lot of people post for the sake of posting.
They have nothing to contribute.

If you post a link to the FAQ, perhaps mention a relavant FAQ rather than
sending someone on a goose chase.

Tho the original poster could have been more clear on which resources he
has already visited : )

Anyhow, just a comment!



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