Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 5 16:51:01 UTC 2007


2007/1/5, Max Laier <max at love2party.net>:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 15:45, Benjamin Close wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >     After getting a new laptop I discovered being tied to a wire when
> > your used to wireless is extremely annoying.
> >
> > Hence I've done a port of the NetBSD driver wpi (20070106 rev) for the
> > Intel3945ABG wireless card to FreeBSD
> > Many thanks to Damien for writing the NetBSD driver in the first place
> > and the initial FreeBSD port which I referenced extensively.
> >
> > The driver is available at:
> >
> >  http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070106-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz
> >
> > (dynamic dns host, so just retry later if it's down):
>
> Mirror'ed at: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/wpi_port/
>
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any issues and I'll try to address them.
> > I'm not sure how well it will work on -stable, I'm running
> >
> > FreeBSD wolf.clearchain.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Dec
> > 13 16:09:21 CST 2006
> > benjsc at wolf.clearchain.com:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/GENERIC  amd64
> >
> > and don't have a -stable machine for testing.
> > Those not using -current, be sure to remove
> >
> > #define WPI_CURRENT
> >
> > in if_wpi.c before compiling.
> >
> > This email was sent through the driver :)

Well, many thanks for this effort.
I will try the driver (and give a look at the code) later in the day,
btw the right people for a strong revision would be sam@ and mlaier at .

Attilio


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