From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 16:37:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9310916A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:37:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690CD43D49 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:37:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:37:20 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 3196D5D04; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:37:20 -0800 (PST) To: Rob Saecker In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:17:03 PST." Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:37:20 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20050128163720.3196D5D04@ptavv.es.net> cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mwavem-fbsd-1.2_2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:37:21 -0000 > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:17:03 -0800 > From: Rob Saecker > > Kevin, > > I'm trying to get the mwavem driver installed on an old Thinkpad > running 5.3, but I'm getting a "Marked as broken" error. I see it > listed as available for 5.3 on the website, unless I'm not > understanding the listings. Can you clarify? Thanks. I'm afraid that mwavem is only available for V4. I no longer use my old 600E, so I no longer have a system to do the work nor a lot of time to work on it. To make it worse, drivers have to be significantly modified to handle the transition from V4 to V5, especially to deal with devfs. The modifications are usually pretty cookie cutter, but they do take a while and I have only had one person ask about them for V5 to this point. (You make number 2.) I'm surprised to see that something on the web pages the implies that it is available for V5. Could you supply the URL of the link so that it can be fixed? And, if you have some time, you could always update the driver for V5. :-) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634