ipw3945 assistance?

[Max Laier]

On Saturday 20 January 2007 05:10, xoundmind wrote:
> Please excuse my noob status...I would like some assistance with
> installing the wpi-freebsd driver on a 6_2 Release setup. Please feel

N.B. wpi(4) != ipw(4) !!!  The latter is for the - now ancient - 1st 
generation centrino cards (2100).  The former - supporting the 3945 
cards - is in early stages of development (at least the port to FreeBSD 
is).  The latest attempt is located at: 
http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi

Note that this is not yet recommended for consumer use.  Eventhough 
testing is welcome and encouraged, this work is simply not yet in a 
stable enough state that documentation can be made available.  In 
general, the tarball from the page above supplies you with everything you 
need (other than a FreeBSD src-tree).  There is no need to download 
additional firmware.  The focus, for now, is HEAD so testing in RELENG_6 
is not supported.

The best advice, as a user and for now, seems to be to try ndis (though I 
have heard reports that it doesn't work for the ipw hardware), or wait 
for the driver to hit the tree.

> free to be a specific as possible, as I suspect there are many others
> who wish to get this working (and are not used to applying
> "non-standard" drivers.) Many thanks

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