Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:55:56 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>, lopisaur@gmail.com Subject: Re: Status of 3945ABG and others Message-ID: <200611191956.06071.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <20061119192633.0af1ea15.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <1163885169.6558.39.camel@resurrection> <20061119192633.0af1ea15.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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--nextPart1328287.40oINgdKmu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 19 November 2006 19:26, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:26:08 +0100 > > Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner <lopisaur@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sound is ALC861, > > Probably HDA, you should test the snd_hdac driver. Look on -multimedia > mailinglist for clues. > > > wireless 3945ABG. > > As far as I know (and I'm interested, because I have a laptop with > this device myself), nothing has happened on this front. It seems that > Intel, for reasons of their own, isn't able to (or doesn't want to) > release necessary docs to make a good driver. > OpenBSD (4.0) have support for this via the wpi driver, but it doesn't > support WPA yet, only WEP. There is an experimental FreeBSD version of this driver available via:=20 http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/wpi/ ... there are a couple of=20 people interested in getting this working, see Threads on freebsd-net@=20 from October and November. > Your best bet would be to > a) exchange the network card, if possible. Some laptop network cards > are miniPCI and can be exchanged, but I do not know if this is the case > for the 3945ABG. > b) use an external usb network "dongle". Look at the ural driver, you > can find some of the supported devices quite cheap. I dont know how > good they are, I have just tested one, and have some issues with it > (stability) but haven't been able to rule out if it is something with > my setup yet. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1328287.40oINgdKmu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFYKjGXyyEoT62BG0RAlS2AJoDAVNBDvkeZzp7nrTRERcIize4cQCfdwcY jUWWp/hsRJtikcAVOhCMx4I= =NKdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1328287.40oINgdKmu--
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