From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 16:20:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2363C16A605; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from postfix1-g20.free.fr (postfix1-g20.free.fr [212.27.60.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D7713C45B; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:20:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by postfix1-g20.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE1D74F280; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:58:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (unknown [82.233.2.192]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56DF527B96; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:58:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850C411443; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:58:46 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0lFpq6ykInK2; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:58:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from [193.95.134.156] (mayday.esat.net [193.95.134.156]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5019311411; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:58:37 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:58:29 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Laier References: <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBC0EB8E196D708065E240718" Cc: Benjamin Close , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, Attilio Rao , damien.bergamini@free.fr, gabor@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:20:46 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBC0EB8E196D708065E240718 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.g= z >> >> (dynamic dns host, so just retry later if it's down): >=20 > Mirror'ed at: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/wpi_port/ >=20 >> Please let me know if you have any issues and I'll try to address them= =2E >> 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 De= c >> 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 :) >=20 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. --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --------------enigBC0EB8E196D708065E240718 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFnnWrMxEkbVFH3PQRCq5WAJ0bGR6kFVrMDhda/mSy0g5/j9m7kwCfQzS2 UTofyjFtTammJ6wiA+w55FI= =WPVA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBC0EB8E196D708065E240718--