From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 7 17:08:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769E216A407; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:08:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD1713C44C; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:08:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 53D2137EC0; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:39:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C1B37E60; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:39:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.199] (81-234-214-163-no68.tbcn.telia.com [81.234.214.163]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55E237E49; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:40:00 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Dahl To: Benjamin Close 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> <45A0F739.3030202@clearchain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso8859-1 Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:39:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1168187999.1124.4.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:32:36 +0000 Cc: Massimo Lusetti , gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk, Florent Thoumie , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, Attilio Rao , damien.bergamini@free.fr, sam@freebsd.org, gabor@freebsd.org, Max Laier Subject: Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:08:47 -0000 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