Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller

[Rene Ladan]

Max Laier schreef:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 16:58, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Hence the extensive CC-list ... I'm trying to get all people involved to 
> talk to each other and coordinate.  From what I hear the other drivers 
> showed some problems regarding resource allocation - maybe this one does 
> better ...
> 
[...]

Added Gavin Atkinson to the CC list, he is working on a wpi(4) clone
which I'm using at the moment.  It has some memory corruption error, but
is otherwise behaving quite good.

Regards,
Rene
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