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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:16:10 +0200
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
Cc:        Luca Morettoni <luca@morettoni.net>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: iwi and (another?) Intel3945ABG
Message-ID:  <20060907201610.GA109@e.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <44FD4EBE.10704@unsane.co.uk>
References:  <44FD4114.5060005@morettoni.net> <1157449857.1036.4.camel@genius.i.cz> <44FD4B83.6060505@morettoni.net> <44FD4EBE.10704@unsane.co.uk>

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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:17:34AM +0100, Vince wrote:
> Luca Morettoni wrote:
> > Michal Mertl ha scritto:
> >> No, it is different hardware. I think I have heard there are problems
> >> with NDIS (Windows) driver for this NIC and that there is some native
> >> beta driver which works.
> >=20
> > anyone have this (beta) driver?
> > thanks!
> >=20
> http://unsane.co.uk/~jhary/freebsd/wpi-freebsd.tgz
>=20
> once extracted make a link from the wpi directory to
> /usr/src/sys/dev/wpi or it wont build correctly.
> when youve done the make;make install
> kldload firmware.ko
> kldload wpi_ucode.ko
> kldload if_wpi.ko
>=20
> and you should have a wpi device and a bunch of info on the console
> (possibly including errors) I havent tried with WEP or similar as I dont
> have it turned on.

I can confirm that it's working with WEP for me. I haven't tested WPA
yet.


> Occasionally I loose connection and have to reset the wpi by
> kldunload wpi_ucode
> kldunload if_wpi
> kldload wpi_ucode

I didn't have any disconnects yet, but I'm not using the driver for too
long.

> Good luck.

I am lucky :)

Thanks a lot, Vince, I was looking for that driver for some time.


Lars

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