From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 17:07:31 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 2CE8116A415 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:07:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7775313C471 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:07:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so7889506nfc for ; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:07:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lGc7LwXBt4xOuKn7Kq9CR3lM4MkBMEQId8CcdIzbG+RWFOt30DgFcFQ01tfc1oVY+E/JXLp950mex3SnRFx68V6E4z5cokEWF415a2iEwUzQBlwuLYtZkj+kI8G+D1Znfs8j4nBWWbj7UePQznJj1bI6QhDnj3eRtImIIqXX8Iw= Received: by 10.49.8.1 with SMTP id l1mr29222887nfi.1168015296070; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:41:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.123.201? ( [195.241.221.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l38sm90057276nfc.2007.01.05.08.41.34; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:41:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <459E7FBD.4050707@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:41:33 +0100 From: Rene Ladan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061224) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Laier References: <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org> <200701051732.27176.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <200701051732.27176.max@love2party.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Benjamin Close , Gavin Atkinson , Florent Thoumie , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, Attilio Rao , 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 17:07:31 -0000 Max Laier schreef: > On Friday 05 January 2007 16:58, Florent Thoumie wrote: >> Max Laier wrote: >>> 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 :) >> While I'm really happy to see people working on this, isn't this a >> duplicated effort? This is at least the third attempt to get a wpi(4) >> driver on FreeBSD (and I'm sure two of them are based on Damien's >> driver). I might be missing something though. > > Hence the extensive CC-list ... I'm trying to get all people involved to > talk to each other and coordinate. From what I hear the other drivers > showed some problems regarding resource allocation - maybe this one does > better ... > [...] Added Gavin Atkinson to the CC list, he is working on a wpi(4) clone which I'm using at the moment. It has some memory corruption error, but is otherwise behaving quite good. Regards, Rene -- GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net) "It won't fit on the line." -- me, 2001