From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 3 7:15:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from day.anthologeek.net (day.anthologeek.net [213.91.4.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C2437B417 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 07:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by day.anthologeek.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 138AB17129; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:13:00 +0200 From: Sameh Ghane To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: will@csociety.org, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd airtools for current, kernel patches Message-ID: <20020403171259.D2373@anthologeek.net> References: <20020328.001453.125544840.imp@village.org> <20020328180259.GX22998@squall.waterspout.com> <20020328.110855.79161096.imp@village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020328.110855.79161096.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:08:55AM -0700 X-PGP-Keys: 0x1289F00D: Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Le (On) Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:08:55AM -0700, M. Warner Losh ecrivit (wrote): > : On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:14:53AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > I'd like to commit this to -current this week. It appears to work for > : > my d-link card, but not my weirdo 3.3V SMC2603W card. > : > > : > http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/airtools.diff > : > : I've merged the patch. Machine boots fine, wireless card comes > : up, etc. How do I test it for you? > > Build airtools and see if it works for your card? Is there any chance to have this support for Aironet drivers too ? The only way I can have similar tools for this card is to use Linux, at the moment, which is sad. Why is there no generic API for accessing wireless cards ? Are they all that much different ? Compared to other wireless NICs, cisco's Aironet are really powerful. Unfortunately, it lacks all the tools Prism-based cards have. Cheers, -- Sameh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message