From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 19 18:56:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F85116A403 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:56:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA61D43D67 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:55:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [88.64.189.86] (helo=amd64.laiers.local) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwh2-1Glrpn3vHi-0001Cb; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:56:08 +0100 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:55:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <1163885169.6558.39.camel@resurrection> <20061119192633.0af1ea15.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20061119192633.0af1ea15.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Face: ,,8R(x[kmU]tKN@>gtH1yQE4aslGdu+2]; R]*pL,U>^H?)gW@49@wdJ`H<=?utf-8?q?=25=7D*=5FBD=0A=09U=5For=3D=5CmOZf764=26nYj=3DJYbR1PW0ud?=>|!~,,CPC.1-D$FG@0h3#'5"k{V]a~.<=?utf-8?q?mZ=7D44=23Se=7Em=0A=09Fe=7E=5C=5DX5B=5D=5Fxj?=(ykz9QKMw_l0C2AQ]}Ym8)fU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1328287.40oINgdKmu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200611191956.06071.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen , lopisaur@gmail.com Subject: Re: Status of 3945ABG and others 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: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:56:19 -0000 --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 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--