Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:35:01 +1200 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: CFT: major wireless changes #2 Message-ID: <20070610093500.GA1399@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <46605C26.9090304@errno.com> References: <46605C26.9090304@errno.com>
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This is another call for testing of the wireless changes, if you want to see 802.11n support in for the FreeBSD 7.* lifetime then please test. The patch has been updated with iwi(4) fixes and can be found here http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/sam_wifi-20070610.patch.gz To apply it do something like cd /usr/src gzcat sam_wifi-20070610.patch.gz | patch -p0 This is a diff to a fresh HEAD so if you tested the previous patch then please revert it first. Andrew On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:49:26AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > This patch against HEAD imports the work that's been sitting in the > sam_wifi p4 branch: > > These changes do the following: > > o significantly change net80211 data structures in ways required by the > multi-bss/vap support and for 802.11n > o overhaul scanning to support background scanning and roaming > o add basic 802.11n support (drivers coming separately) > o add support for Atheros' protocol extensions (e.g. fast frames) > o purge compatibility ioctls in net80211 for wicontrol et. al. > o add experimental radiotap additions for handling 802.11n packets > o update ifconfig > > Note that scanning in net80211 has been broken out into separate modules > and you must now add device lines for wlan_scan_ap+wlan_scan_sta (as > appropriate) or load the modules as you do the crypto modules. > > These changes have been extensively tested in one form or another for > several years but the current code may have some minor issues. Some > drivers have been tested more than others. In particular iwi just > recently got some work and it appears to need some more fixups to deal > with "stuck scan" and beacon miss issues. > > This is the work of many people including Kip Macy, Max Laier, Sephe > Ziehau, Andrew Thompson, and Kevin Lo. Please report problems to this list. > > Sam > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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