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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:25:19 +0100
From:      "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        "Max Laier" <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org>, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, damien.bergamini@free.fr, gabor@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
Message-ID:  <3bbf2fe10701050825u142b763dn5db2dd529fcb759c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net>
References:  <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net>

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2007/1/5, Max Laier <max@love2party.net>:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 15:45, Benjamin Close wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >     After getting a new laptop I discovered being tied to a wire when
> > your used to wireless is extremely annoying.
> >
> > Hence I've done a port of the NetBSD driver wpi (20070106 rev) for the
> > Intel3945ABG wireless card to FreeBSD
> > Many thanks to Damien for writing the NetBSD driver in the first place
> > and the initial FreeBSD port which I referenced extensively.
> >
> > The driver is available at:
> >
> >  http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070106-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz
> >
> > (dynamic dns host, so just retry later if it's down):
>
> Mirror'ed at: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/wpi_port/
>
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any issues and I'll try to address them.
> > I'm not sure how well it will work on -stable, I'm running
> >
> > FreeBSD wolf.clearchain.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Dec
> > 13 16:09:21 CST 2006
> > benjsc@wolf.clearchain.com:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/GENERIC  amd64
> >
> > and don't have a -stable machine for testing.
> > Those not using -current, be sure to remove
> >
> > #define WPI_CURRENT
> >
> > in if_wpi.c before compiling.
> >
> > This email was sent through the driver :)

Well, many thanks for this effort.
I will try the driver (and give a look at the code) later in the day,
btw the right people for a strong revision would be sam@ and mlaier@.

Attilio


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