Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:41:33 +0100 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org>, 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: <459E7FBD.4050707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200701051732.27176.max@love2party.net> References: <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org> <200701051732.27176.max@love2party.net>
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Max Laier schreef: > 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: >>>> >>>> >>>> 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 > talk to each other and coordinate. From what I hear the other drivers > showed some problems regarding resource allocation - maybe this one does > better ... > [...] Added Gavin Atkinson to the CC list, he is working on a wpi(4) clone which I'm using at the moment. It has some memory corruption error, but is otherwise behaving quite good. Regards, Rene -- GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net) "It won't fit on the line." -- me, 2001
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