if_wi patch

[Justin Hibbits]

On Jan 25, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:42:29 -0500
> Justin Hibbits <jhibbits at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at dlink.ua>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:58:18 -0500
>>>> Justin Hibbits <jhibbits at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Can someone test this patch on x86?  The patch is needed to work
>>>>>> properly on big-endian architectures (tested on ppc with my
>>>>>> if_wi macio attachment, to be committed after wider testing).
>>>>>> Taken from the OpenBSD driver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Justin
>>>>
>>>> Cool!
>>>>
>>>> Justin, any plans to make it support FW loading? Then I will able
>>>> to bring up WiFi on my old Palm Tungsten C :)
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, thank you!
>>>>
>>>> WBW
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know anything about firmware loading, I'm just trying to get
>>> my PowerBook on wifi :)
>
> Will explain a bit (hope nobody beat me) :
> embedded devices like Palm TC and some Asus have if_wi, but w/o
> firmware flash, so driver need to load FW before enable device.
>
> Do you have doc for it? because linux code with FW loading to much
> inconsistent with my head :)

Nope, sorry.  I don't even know what I'm doing, really :)  Adrian  
knows a lot more, he helped me with what I've done.  You can look at  
firmware(4) for help with loading firmware, that's all I can say.

- Justin