dhclient in 6.0

Freddie Cash fcash at ocis.net
Wed Feb 15 09:34:54 PST 2006


On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:31 am, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Craig Boston wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 10:04:16PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I recently made another stab at overhauling wi to better integrate with
> net80211.  It uses some of Craig's work and some of mine.  The results
> were fragile.  The main problem is what Craig describes: if all you
> care about are Intersil parts then you can do it but if wi is to
> continue supporting older cards then it's hard.  As I've said before I
> believe resources are better spent on improving drivers for newer
> parts.  OTOH if someone really and truly wants to do this I have a
> number of cards I can loan.

Completely naive, non-developer question:  would it be possible to split 
the wi(4) driver into two drivers?  One to support all the ancient, 
pre-802.11 cards, and one to support all the nice, new cards?

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Freddie Cash
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