From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 18:30:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D031B37B401; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from chronozon.artofdns.com (CPE00e0293a847c-CM014400123697.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.43.64.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CEE43F85; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stef@chronozon.artofdns.com) Received: from testlin.hades (unknown [192.168.2.110]) by chronozon.artofdns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7812A4C231; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:38:07 -0500 (EST) From: Stef Telford To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: <200304041528.09231.wes@softweyr.com> References: <1049490400.16435.26.camel@testlin.hades> <200304041528.09231.wes@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1049596321.20344.18.camel@testlin.hades> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3-1mdk Date: 05 Apr 2003 21:32:01 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: imp@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atmel drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 02:30:52 -0000 On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 18:28, Wes Peters wrote: > It's off-topic for this mailing list, but quite understandable. The > best place to bring it up is probably mobile; I've directed replies > there. The best *person* to contact is most likely Warner Losh, who > has written and/or coordinated much of the support for PCCards, > CardBus, etc. in FreeBSD, so I cc'ed him too. > ah, thank you and sorry for any inconvenience, after this email i will automagically drop you from being cc'd (polite manners and all :) of course, in this case it would also be prudent of moi to join mobile :) > Sounds like something we need. I've got a prism1 and prism2 card I > could donate, but that won't solve the larger problem; thank you for the kind offer, but as its been (hopefully) explained, more and more 'old' 802.11b cards are starting to 'convert' to the atmel chipset. from what -i- have seen under (*ahem*) other os's this is probably due to the fact that the chipset performs more sanely under high and constant load. both of the old SMC prism based cards could be labelled, at -best-, erratic. > I'd rather have > support for the new chipset instead. Warner, let me know if I can help > by sending a card or something. if the problem is hardware, am more than willing to try and find someone selling a SMC v2 card cheaply online and maxing out my flexible friend, although last i checked, my visa card was suffering from a slight case of 'death' (or over usage, take your pick :) that being said, the 'source' is freely available from the atmel driver site on sourceforge and am more than willing to recompile the kernel to debug and all that good and helpful stuff. although not sure if the information used in programming was obtained by signing an NDA and if so, is it considered 'privileged information'. as usual, the standard IANAL disclaimer applies, but may be another point to consider :) regards and thanks Stef Telford