Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:58:29 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, damien.bergamini@free.fr, gabor@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller Message-ID: <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> References: <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFnnWrMxEkbVFH3PQRCq5WAJ0bGR6kFVrMDhda/mSy0g5/j9m7kwCfQzS2 UTofyjFtTammJ6wiA+w55FI= =WPVA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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