Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 09:40:58 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: vaclav.petricek@mff.cuni.cz Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nokia D211 Message-ID: <20030517.094058.41701630.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.50.0305171617230.29742-100000@sec.ms.mff.cuni.cz> References: <Pine.BSF.4.50.0305171617230.29742-100000@sec.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
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Vaclav Petricek <vaclav.petricek@mff.cuni.cz> writes:
: Part of the linux driver for Nokia D211 (wlan+gprs+gsm PCMCIA card) comes
: in binary form only with a license prohibiting reverse engineering.
Yes.
: Is there a chance it will be supported by FreeBSD in the near future?
: Are we dependend on nokia to disclose their source or would it be possible
: to get at least some of the card functionality using standard drivers? Is
: it likely nokia would provide the sources or a *BSD driver?
I've been working on a driver for a while that would wrap the Linux
driver. It has been slow going and might not be possible in the end.
I've a skeleton driver, but it gives nothing but panics when I try to
use it and it gets into the binary gooball :-( Maybe if I can find a
few days to concentrate on it I could make more progress.
Warner
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