From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri May 25 3:23:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92ACC37B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 03:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@monzoon.net) Received: (qmail 78990 invoked from network); 25 May 2001 10:22:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monzoon.net) ([62.48.21.171]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 May 2001 10:22:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3B0E325B.E1FCE93C@monzoon.net> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:22:19 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linksys Wireless Card Update Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It has been suggested to me that the wi driver should support prism2 cards > (which is what I believe the linksys card uses). I added the appropriate > lines to /etc/pccard.conf and was able to get my machine to load the wi > driver and ifconfig to show an interface for it, but when I run wicontrol it > returns an error (SIOCGWAVELAN : Invalid argument) and if I try to give the > interface an IP address I get tx buffer allocation failed and mgmt buffer > allocation failed. > > Any ideas on where to proceed from here? Who maintains the wi driver > anyway? Well, the wi() driver isn't really maintained by anyone atm. Various people have committed changes to it. I'm working on a AP version of the wi() driver at the moment (together with Julian). I need this for my employer. Eventually I want to make it available as a binary driver for the HERMES (Lucent Orinoco) based cards (binary because the AP stuff is under NDA). Later on I probably also make a AP version for PRISMII based cards available. While doing all that I'm right now working on cleaning up the wi() to work perfectly with the HERMES and PRISMII chips. Although HERMES and PRISM started as a joint project they have diverged in some significant aspects by now (mostly in the encryption area). While comparing Bill Paul's wi() driver with the Docs it becomes very clear that he, of course, had a limited overview of the inner workings. I will provide a patch for clean up of the wi() driver in one to two month time. It'll contain no NDA'd stuff, only information that is available elsewhere on the Internet but put together with the inner working of the chips in mind. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message