Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:48:06 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipw in 8.0-BETA1 Message-ID: <4A608F26.8050904@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <f0dd9eb90907170332l2a4229b0u70a45f76d2479be@mail.gmail.com> References: <f0dd9eb90907170332l2a4229b0u70a45f76d2479be@mail.gmail.com>
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James Butler wrote: > Greetings > > Are ipw devices expected to work in 8.0-BETA1? Mine apparently > doesn't. I have updated my rc.conf according to the instructions in > UPDATING relating to wlans; the wlan0 interface is created, but > wpa_supplicant doesn't associate. > > I ask after seeing this snippet from the list back in March: > >> Unfortunately the vap conversion of the ipw driver never was completed >> (it's the only driver in the tree that is known to be totally broken). It's on >> my todo list for 8.0 but would happily defer to someone else :). > > If the answer is yes, then I'll try a little harder. Sorry the driver never got fixed after conversion to vaps; it's on the 8.0 TODO list. I'm not sure it's going to be fixed before 8.0. Sam
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