From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 03:54:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935D01065674 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7F88FC14 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059D15C2F197 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:56:01 +1100 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <179b97fb0901191924s5646189ctfc9e08f4bc531937@mail.gmail.com> References: <4973AE61.2040805@janh.de> <4974B4B2.5020308@freebsd.org> <20090120013823.GA62274@plebeian.afflictions.org> <1232419704.1138.57.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <179b97fb0901191924s5646189ctfc9e08f4bc531937@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:54:23 +1000 Message-Id: <1232423663.1138.66.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: iwn driver on 7.1 [no vaps in RELENG_7] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:54:42 -0000 On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 21:24 -0600, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Da Rock wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 20:38 -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > >> Sam Leffler wrote: > >> : OTOH iwn is now out of date and someone needs to update it. There's > >> : newer firmware that is supposed to fix many of the bugs I hit when I > >> : worked on the driver (and Intel refused to acknowledge) and obsd has > >> : added support for newer parts that people want. It'd be great if > >> : someone wanted to take over this driver. > >> > >> I've been working on this driver for the past few weeks (Christmas provided > >> a healthy distraction), but it's a steep learning curve for a novice C > >> coder. If anyone wants to work on this, let me know, as I have a small > >> portion of the work already done. > >> > >> - Damian > > > > I'm willing to work on it (doing so now), but from what you have said > > here it sounds like you're in the same boat as myself as I'm very new to > > this too :) > > > > What about collaboration between us with a Freebsd core team mentor? Is > > this possible? Code, test, then send the new code through the core team > > member for approval as well as hints to get the job done? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I don't know how mentoring works in the FreeBSD world or if a > canonical process of mentoring even exists, but I would definitely be > willing to participate. I know it would be a heck of a lot better than > hacking around on this stuff by myself. > > -Brandon Ok then, as you said- where do we start? From what I can see in the running of the card currently is its having trouble scanning- but they maybe a ruse, I'm trying to find a way to definitively determine what is going on here. Also, once the card has started scanning it locks up and appears to 'reset' or something, so that when I run wpa_supplicant the next time round it works again- but still won't scan. I'll just run through what I did yesterday again and post the results, but I believe those results from yesterday are already there on the -questions@ list if you wish to jump the gun. I'm currently looking along the lines of what people are running atm- it just clicked with me that my card is 4965AGN, but most reference this card as BGN, so I'm wondering if thats making a difference.