Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:44:43 +0100 From: Gilbert Cao <hika@bsdmon.com> To: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com> Cc: Massimo Lusetti <mlusetti@gmail.com>, Abdullah Al-Marrie <almarrie@gmail.com>, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, damien.bergamini@free.fr, sam@freebsd.org, gabor@freebsd.org, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Subject: Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller Message-ID: <20070124204443.GA1107@bsdmon.com> In-Reply-To: <499c70c0701201038w6960174n3006ffd525f17bf6@mail.gmail.com> References: <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org> <200701051732.27176.max@love2party.net> <a6647e120701050844u49b3f867xcbc0235e50871578@mail.gmail.com> <45A0F739.3030202@clearchain.com> <499c70c0701201038w6960174n3006ffd525f17bf6@mail.gmail.com>
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--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:38:46PM +0000, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: [..] Well, sorry to post in *this* thread. It may not be appropriate, but I just subscribe to freebsd-drivers :p. > On 1/7/07, Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com> wrote: > >To others working on a wpi driver, please post something indicating what > >you've done and even a sample of what your up to so we can one build one > >driver that just works. I also did the driver port as everything I found > >failed to work on a 64bit kernel, most the time wouldn't even compile. > > > >I'm happy to try and maintain this driver. I have the hardware. > > > >The main bugs I know about in this driver port are: > > > >* The use of the iee80211_amrr code > >The files exist in -current in /usr/src/sys/net80211 but the required > >symbols are not in a GENERIC kernel build. There is a wlan_amrr module > >which uses this code, though I'm not sure how to make use of this, it > >appears a simple dependency on the module is not enough. The use of the > >80211_amrr code also means that use under -stable requires quite a bit > >more work as Rink pointed out. > > [..] > >For those wishing to help debug the driver and get it working, I've > >posted a new version > >http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070107-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz > > As I have posted a message here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-January/140475.ht= ml I have put a custom version of mine from your last package here: http://www.bsdmon.com/download/20070121-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz What I have mainly done is to make the package compile and work (for me a least) on 6.2-RELEASE (and possibly other 6.x ?). Don't know if you will ignore it or not, but I feel like I should have post it here, anyway. As it works well, now for my daily uses (reading mail, surfing on the HTTP, playing Q3 ;), I may post some debug output, if needed, but I keep using 6.2, no -current. The post may be off topic, sorry ... --=20 -------------------------------- (hika) Gilbert Cao http://www.miaouirc.com - MiaouIRC Project 2002-2003 http://www.bsdmon.com - The BSD DMON Power to serve IRC : #miaule at IRCNET Network -------------------------------- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFt8U6SyQfFTqAEpcRAhgvAJ9eRWyjeQbABx4/XLfzvk4V/2xRCACfTDEX 7qn/pgi9qpsR3xOo5fxSrgA= =rKYT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--
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