Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:32:18 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org> 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: <200701051732.27176.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org> References: <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org>
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--nextPart2213065.Iqai8T0Pqy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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: > >> > >>=20 > >> 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=20 talk to each other and coordinate. From what I hear the other drivers=20 showed some problems regarding resource allocation - maybe this one does=20 better ... I'm more than willing to shepherd one of these drivers into the tree, but=20 I'd need people with the actual hardware to say: "Yes it works" (for a=20 large enough fraction of cases) and possibly somebody to serve as a=20 maintainer willing to deal with PRs and stuff in the future. Given that part one of this is fullfilled by either of the available=20 drivers - let's get something in and work from there. Thoughts? Volunteers? =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 --nextPart2213065.Iqai8T0Pqy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFnn2bXyyEoT62BG0RAvImAJ9C0aPbLBgsoEx0gx/g/U0nilykgQCfY3Fg 07j/3Z095qwCpjzGC2gekhQ= =zdwQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2213065.Iqai8T0Pqy--
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