Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller

[Florent Thoumie]

Max Laier wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 15:45, Benjamin Close wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>     After getting a new laptop I discovered being tied to a wire when
>> your used to wireless is extremely annoying.
>>
>> Hence I've done a port of the NetBSD driver wpi (20070106 rev) for the
>> Intel3945ABG wireless card to FreeBSD
>> Many thanks to Damien for writing the NetBSD driver in the first place
>> and the initial FreeBSD port which I referenced extensively.
>>
>> The driver is available at:
>>
>>  http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070106-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz
>>
>> (dynamic dns host, so just retry later if it's down):
> 
> Mirror'ed at: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/wpi_port/
> 
>> Please let me know if you have any issues and I'll try to address them.
>> I'm not sure how well it will work on -stable, I'm running
>>
>> FreeBSD wolf.clearchain.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Dec
>> 13 16:09:21 CST 2006
>> benjsc at wolf.clearchain.com:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/GENERIC  amd64
>>
>> and don't have a -stable machine for testing.
>> Those not using -current, be sure to remove
>>
>> #define WPI_CURRENT
>>
>> in if_wpi.c before compiling.
>>
>> This email was sent through the driver :)
> 

While I'm really happy to see people working on this, isn't this a
duplicated effort? This is at least the third attempt to get a wpi(4)
driver on FreeBSD (and I'm sure two of them are based on Damien's
driver). I might be missing something though.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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