ports/104062: net/gkrellmwireless2 plugin fails to recognise ath0 wireless

[Hajimu UMEMOTO]

The following reply was made to PR ports/104062; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume at FreeBSD.org>
To: Lars Hecking <lhecking at users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: KT Sin <ktsin at acm.org>, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, ume at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/104062: net/gkrellmwireless2 plugin fails to recognise ath0 wireless
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:33:08 +0900

 Hi,
 
 >>>>> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 20:31:51 +0100 (IST)
 >>>>> Lars Hecking <lhecking at users.sourceforge.net> said:
 
 > afaik, gkrellmwireless2, even with 2.0.3 doesn't support wireless
 > devices other than wi.
  
 lhecking>  That is interesting, because it works on Gentoo (gkrellm 2.2.5,
 lhecking>  gkrellmwireless2 2.0.3) with ath0, and seemingly without patches.
 lhecking>  It must depend on some more fundamental differences beetween the
 lhecking>  OSes.
 
 The FreeBSD's API around here is quite different from Linux one.
 
 lhecking>  I actually tried 2.0.3 on FreeBSD, but the problem is the same.
 
 > however, hajimu umemoto-san made a patch some time ago to include
 > support for newer wireless cards under freebsd.
 > 
 > please try the patch below and see if it works for you.
 
 lhecking>  It does, and thank you very much! :)
 
 It should be applied cleanly to 2.0.3 as well.
 
 I sent the author of gkrellmwireless2 it once before, but I got no
 response from him.  I'll resend it later.
 It might better to include it in gkrellmwireless2 port.
 
 Sincerely,
 
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 Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
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