wireless applet for wi interface

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 02:24, Olivier Cortes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the wifi gnome2 applet opens /proc/sys/wireless hard in the code... it
> expects the "/proc linux interface" everywhere. unless someones makes it
> freebsd (or *bsd ?) friendly, it is not going to work today :-(
> 
> is there any page where i can find a porting guide for this kind of app?
> i mean : should i simply insert #ifdef __FreeBSD__ in the code, or is
> there a more elegant way to do it ?

The code has already been ported to FreeBSD.  However, there appears to
be a bug recognizing the wi-driven cards.  It works fine for my Aironet
card.

Joe

> 
> regards,
> 
> Olivier Cortes
> 
> Le Mar 05/08/2003 à 04:05, Joe Marcus Clarke a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 04:58, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 03:26, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 08:30, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> > > > > just mucking around and noticed this wireless applet.
> > > > > 
> > > > > however it just comes up with n/a for me when I load it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > further fishing around revealed that support for wi is available in
> > > > > gnomeapplets2 2.2.2_1.
> > > > > 
> > > > > however i don't seem to be having much luck.. any tips?
> > > > 
> > > > Did you configure it to use wi0?  By default it expects an0.
> > > > 
> > > > Joe
> > > 
> > > as in right click -> preferences??
> > 
> > Hmmm...I didn't write the wi code, and I don't have a wi card with which
> > to test.  Try asking David Jonas <djonas at splitretina.com> if he has an
> > idea on this.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > > by default it had wi0.. in fact that was the only option.
> > > 
> > > ajt.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > /usr/ports/x11/gnomeapplets2 > pkg_info| grep applet
> > > > > gnomeapplets2-2.2.2_1 Applets components for the Gnome 2 Desktop
> > > > > Environment
> > > > > 
> > > > > 5.0-RELEASE-p7
> > > > > 
> > > > > wi0: <WaveLAN/IEEE> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on
> > > > > pccard0
> > > > > wi0: 802.11 address: 00:40:05:ae:bd:48
> > > > > wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
> > > > > 
> > > > > thanks,
> > > > > 
> > > > > ajt.
> > > > > 
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