About bwi

[Alex Keda]

Steve Franks пишет:
> 2009/2/26 Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Alex Keda <admin at lissyara.su> wrote:
>>> Kip Macy пишет:
>>>> Someone needs to be there to maintain it. To the best of my knowledge
>>>> no one appropriate has stepped forward.
>>>>
>>> And what exactly should be supported?
>>> He finished - nothing more to do.
>> I actually didn't finish it (the finished part works well enough for
>> me on dfly for all of the 8 bcm cards I have) and I do not have enough
>> time to keep working on it.  Several folks mailed me about what to do
>> next, I pointed them to the spec on the web, however, I didn't hear
>> from any of them after that.
>>
>>> no way to develop a driver.
>>> the new cards have to write a new driver.
>> I based on following URL when I worked on the "old" driver:
>> http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/
>>
>> For newer parts you will need following one:
>> http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/
>>
>> Hope this will be useful to you.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> sephe
>>
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> 
> If someone could give me a hand on where to stick the tgz into
> /usr/src and get started, I'll have a go...I've written alot of
> drivers for 8051-style toys, I'm not sure if I'm man enough for this,
> but I'd rather try and fail, then skip the attempt.  If nothing else,
> a working bwi in ports would answer an awful lot of ndisgen emails...
http://paradox.lissyara.su/bwi.02.tar.bz2 - 7.x
http://paradox.lissyara.su/bwi.02e.tar.bz2 - current
but - it only for PCI (PCMCI)
new card - need new driver. see
http://paradox.lissyara.su/bwi.03e.tar.bz2
It not work (only detecting correct). need write code

> 
> I've seen a number of posts around the web.  Was this for stable or
> current?  I really don't have a functional current box at the moment,
> but several stable boxes where ndis0 won't find my AP's...
> 
> Just to add to the fun, my latest system is brand-new, so it's a
> mini-pci-express bwi; I assume if that works, it's going to
> incorporate alot of other new cards...
> 
> Steve
>