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Wireless Network Driver for Cisco Aironet 340/350 Chipsets (pcan)

The current version is 0.1 which is based on GLDv2. Solaris 10 users need to user this version, while pcan(GLDv3) version is integrated OpenSolaris build 60.

This version doesn't support Aironet "pci14b9, a504" minipci card, while the gldv3 version in snv_60+ does support it.

This driver is partially based on the source code from FreeBSD, and is provided under the same BSD License.

Links

• SUNWpcan package
• Source code

Requirements

Before downloading the source or installing the binaries, please make sure that your system meets the following requirements:

• Cisco Aironet PCCard 340 or 350 series or Cisco Aironet Mini-PCI Card MPI350. It is important that the firmware on the MPI350 card is not higher than 5.00.03. For more information on Cisco Aironet 350 Series visit this web page.

• Solaris 10 or Solaris Nevada build

How to use

The easiest way to install the driver is from pre-compiled binary package:

# wget http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/pcan-0.1-pkg.tar.gz
# gzip -dc pcan-0.1-pkg.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# cd pcan-0.1; pkgadd -d . SUNWpcan

You should be able to plumb the interface right after installing this package without having to reboot first:

# ifconfig pcan0 plumb

If plumbing failed, your card may be not supported or just not getting properly identified by the Solaris kernel. Send us a note and we'll try to help.

If you don't use WEP and want to connect to whatever WLAN available, then all that's left to do is starting dhcp:

# ifconfig pcan0 dhcp

If your WLAN requires WEP authorization, then you need to download and install the wificonfig utility (v0.2). After that, you'll need to create new profile for your WLAN with the following commands:

# wificonfig -i pcan0 createprofile essid=ssid encryption=wep wepkey1=wepkey
# wificonfig -i pcan0 connect ssid
# ifconfig pcan0 dhcp

Go to wificonfig web page for more details.

Notes

This is work in progress. Please send your questions and comments laptop-discuss@opensolaris.org discussion forum.