[RFT] Intel 3945abg wireless driver (wpi)

Vince jhary at unsane.co.uk
Thu Dec 13 07:43:02 PST 2007


Benjamin Close wrote:
> Howdy All,           I'm pleased to announce the first 'official'
> experimental version of the wpi wireless driver and hence require your
> help in making it become stable.
> Expect a few things not to work (ie bg scanning, setting txpower) but in
> general the driver should be usable in station mode (hostap is not yet
> supported).
> 
> If you've got an Intel 3945abg wireless card, grab the tarball at:
> 
>   
> http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz
> 
> Untar and follow the instructions in the README.
> If you want more info about the driver, or to checkout the FAQ checkout:
> 
>    http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi
> 
> I'm interested in all reports related to panics, things not working as
> expected, etc.
> The driver still has debug enabled so expect a few messages to be dumped
> to the screen whilst in use.
> 
> Finally, many thanks to all those that have been helping debug the
> driver along the way.
> 
Thanks for getting this driver going, I'm now using the version in 7.0,
Its working very well for me other than one (reasonably minor) thing,
which is that "ifconfig wpi0 scan" just sits there until I kill it. the
driver works in every other way, associates, works with WEP (havent
tried with WPA.) It will find and associate with a network if I just put
in "ifconfig wpi0 up" or if i use wpa_supplicant.

(jhary at prawn)$uname -a
FreeBSD prawn.unsane.co.uk 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #39: Tue Dec 11
12:51:33 GMT 2007
toor at prawn.unsane.co.uk:/usr/local/obj/usr/src/sys/PRAWN7ULE  i386



Vince



> Cheers,
>    Benjamin
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