Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:36:41 +0100 From: Massimo Lusetti <massimo@cedoc.mo.it> To: net@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: New wpi driver Message-ID: <1162993001.4305.37.camel@massimo.datacode.it>
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Hi all, I'm pleased to tell you i got the latest wpi driver from Damien Bergamini to work properly on a latest -stable on an Acer laptop. Some history: I didn't do anything special, only report some problems on the misc@openbsd about this new driver on the recently 4.0 release and Damien was kind enough to respond me, the problem were related to the switch on my laptop used to turn on/off the receiver being an ACPI-only switch, this cause the driver to not work properly due to openbsd acpi issues on the laptop. Then Damien ask if i would like to have the FreeBSD version of the driver since i told him the switch work properly on FreeBSD, this all end up me having the driver working smoothly on FreeBSD. The driver as provided by Damien compiled without any issues on my stable, no need to put it under any special directory or what else. Obviously the driver is BSD licensed and obviously is an unsupported version of the driver so not complain to the author if this fail for you. For make this all clear i quote word from the author: --- No problem. It's BSD-licensed, you can redistribute it freely. I just don't want to hear complaints from users if it doesn't work. I don't provide any "support" for the FreeBSD version of wpi(4). --- The driver is available here: http://www.datacode.it/wpi-freebsd/wpi-freebsd.tgz If anyone from FreeBSD team or else is willing to put it on a host with more bandwidth it's more then welcome. Here is the relevant part from the dmesg and ifconfig. wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem 0xd2100000-0xd2100fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5 channel 1 pwr1 0x007d pwr2 0x007c channel 2 pwr1 0x007b pwr2 0x007e channel 3 pwr1 0x009c pwr2 0x009d channel 4 pwr1 0x009e pwr2 0x009c channel 5 pwr1 0x0000 pwr2 0x0000 channel 6 pwr1 0x0075 pwr2 0x0076 channel 7 pwr1 0x0075 pwr2 0x0074 channel 8 pwr1 0x0077 pwr2 0x0076 channel 9 pwr1 0x0075 pwr2 0x0077 channel 10 pwr1 0x0000 pwr2 0x0000 channel 11 pwr1 0x0001 pwr2 0x0001 channel 12 pwr1 0x0001 pwr2 0x0001 channel 13 pwr1 0x0001 pwr2 0x0001 channel 14 pwr1 0x0001 pwr2 0x0001 wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:02:18:e5:b2 wpi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:13:02:18:e5:b2 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid "" channel 1 authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 bmiss 7 protmode CTS Regards -- Massimo.run();
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