802.11 status and futures

[Kirill Ponomarew]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:14:43PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20050904174016.GI65522 at voodoo.oberon.net>
>             Kirill Ponomarew <krion at voodoo.oberon.net> writes:
> : On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:01:44AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> : > The ath driver is the best example to work from to understand how a wide 
> : > variety of features work.  Some cards with more intelligence may require 
> : > some tweaks at the net80211 level (e.g. to disable functionality that is 
> : > implemented in the device).
> : 
> : BTW, any chance to fix my problems with ath on HP Compaq nx9005,
> : which I described on freebsd-mobile@ ?  Warner suspected there are
> : cbb problems, I would provide the access to the notebook for fixing
> : it, but it seems nobody is interested :(
> 
> Yes.  I've not had the head space to go after this set of problems.
> I've been trying to finalize some other pccard/cardbus changes in
> head/my p4 tree so I can get them into 6.0.  After that, I plan on
> attacking cbb issues.  Sorry for the delay.

These are good news for notebook users.  Thank you for supporting
it.

> After looking at your traceback again, I don't think that there's a
> cbb problem in there that's affecting you (the interrupt storm is a
> problem, and should be fixed, but it clearly isn't keeping you from
> probing/attaching/powering up).

Yeah, fixing the interrupt storm would be also a great thing.  Ping
me if you have time, I'll deliver all necessary info you need.

-Kirill