Infrastructure Software

Hi,

First and foremost, I hope that this stands in the right place. I'm new to these forum, and seen the fast that this is not high performance networking, I have put this here. I hope this is right?

Now to the point. I have just installed solaris 10 as my first non windows OS. Perhaps this was not the smartest thing to do, anyway, the install itself was not that hard. The problems came when I wanted to install my wireless usb stick. It is using a zydas chip.

So I downloaded a driver I found.
linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/
And then I try to follow the instruction in the readme file. The terminal finishes only after I manually created the directories needed. I don't like that fact that I had to do this myself. Is this normal? Doesn't solaris has some preset directories for such things?

the directories I created:
/etc/firmware and /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

So now I'm assuming that I have installed the drivers. However, when I plug the usb stick in, I get a message that no driver was found, so it didn't install eventough everything went fine?
I'm thinking that maybe I need to say the os what driver to use, though I couldn't find how to do this. And frankly why should I? If the os understands that there is a device, why can't it see what driver to use.

Conclusion, I have no idea what to do next, even ndiswrapper won't install, probably needs C compiler or something, though I actually don't want to run the driver in a virtual machine. I don't know if my computer will survive.