Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:24:40 -0700 From: Steve Franks <franks@rudbek.com> To: Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About bwi Message-ID: <539c60b90904141124j839dd20qb20e3e14b05e6f97@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ea7b9c170902261826p5834406kdbcc6a309064e7fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <49A701DF.5070109@lissyara.su> <3c1674c90902261300x6dd5f21bja58ecf214bcfb644@mail.gmail.com> <49A70508.20100@lissyara.su> <ea7b9c170902261826p5834406kdbcc6a309064e7fb@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/2/26 Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> wrote: >> Kip Macy =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: >>> >>> Someone needs to be there to maintain it. To the best of my knowledge >>> no one appropriate has stepped forward. >>> >> >> And what exactly should be supported? >> He finished - nothing more to do. > > I actually didn't finish it (the finished part works well enough for > me on dfly for all of the 8 bcm cards I have) and I do not have enough > time to keep working on it. =9ASeveral folks mailed me about what to do > next, I pointed them to the spec on the web, however, I didn't hear > from any of them after that. > >> >> no way to develop a driver. >> the new cards have to write a new driver. > > I based on following URL when I worked on the "old" driver: > http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/ > > For newer parts you will need following one: > http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/ > > Hope this will be useful to you. > > Best Regards, > sephe > > -- > Live Free or Die > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > If someone could give me a hand on where to stick the tgz into /usr/src and get started, I'll have a go...I've written alot of drivers for 8051-style toys, I'm not sure if I'm man enough for this, but I'd rather try and fail, then skip the attempt. If nothing else, a working bwi in ports would answer an awful lot of ndisgen emails... I've seen a number of posts around the web. Was this for stable or current? I really don't have a functional current box at the moment, but several stable boxes where ndis0 won't find my AP's... Just to add to the fun, my latest system is brand-new, so it's a mini-pci-express bwi; I assume if that works, it's going to incorporate alot of other new cards... Steve
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