From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 16:51:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2883716A492 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asmrookie@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E41513C428 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:51:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asmrookie@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so5121057uge for ; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:50:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=asbbviAXeJBWz4wtyOUXCgyq0gnNtQHkCFSyWWDL/BN1x1U2x/R4vsWGo3EGQT1L4/5vCERQFcxT9wDkKXGsYy91PPYHaR5zqPXtdHzFgirzQ62BkpPU19LFiRt3foHrhGcV/Sjboa8326UcFwEJG2qtonjM2YR5EwZAZWwSQM0= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr1817680bue.1168014320062; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:25:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.189.18 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:25:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3bbf2fe10701050825u142b763dn5db2dd529fcb759c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:25:19 +0100 From: "Attilio Rao" Sender: asmrookie@gmail.com To: "Max Laier" In-Reply-To: <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6ce8e835a4fcbf5d Cc: Benjamin Close , Florent Thoumie , freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, damien.bergamini@free.fr, gabor@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:51:01 -0000 2007/1/5, Max Laier : > 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 -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein