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Date:      Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:39:59 +0100
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>
Cc:        Massimo Lusetti <mlusetti@gmail.com>, 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, sam@freebsd.org, gabor@freebsd.org, Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject:   Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
Message-ID:  <1168187999.1124.4.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se>
In-Reply-To: <45A0F739.3030202@clearchain.com>
References:  <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org> <200701051732.27176.max@love2party.net> <a6647e120701050844u49b3f867xcbc0235e50871578@mail.gmail.com> <45A0F739.3030202@clearchain.com>

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Mån 2007-01-08 klockan 00:05 +1030 skrev Benjamin Close:
> Hi Folks,
>     I did the port as my searching led me to believe that progress on a 
> driver had stagnated.
> Port 1: was done by Damien himself 
> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2006-July/008768.html)
> Port 2: was an updated version by Daminen:  
> http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg58154.html
>             which seems to be duplicated here: 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/wpi/ 
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-net@freebsd.org/msg20710.html)
> With version 2 being minor bug fixes to version 1 to try and get it 
> working. Since then the driver has come a long way in netbsd with the 
> FreeBSD version just getting older. 
> 
> To others working on a wpi driver, please post something indicating what 
> you've done and even a sample of what your up to so we can one build one 
> driver that just works. I also did the driver port as everything I found 
> failed to work on a 64bit kernel, most the time wouldn't even compile.

Gavin Atkinson (CC'ed) is AFAIK also working on wpi(4) for FreeBSD,
according to his announcement on net@: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-December/012808.html

-- 
Joel




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