Intel PRO 3945ABG Wireless

[Vince]

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On October 10, 2006 4:33:35 AM +0200 Max Laier <max at love2party.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 04:12, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>> I've been trying to get this to work on my laptop without success.
>>> According to this page -
>>> <http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ipw-freebsd.html> - the ipw driver
>>> should work.  I can load the driver, but it doesn't show up in dmesg.
>>
>> You are mistaken, I'm afraid.  This has been discussed a couple of time
>> already.  The ipw(4) driver supports the now already quite dated 2100bg
>> cards.  Support for the new 3945abg is not available - other than
>> ndis(4)  and I don't know if that works or not.  OpenBSD has a driver by
>> the name  of wpi(4).  This is probably the point to start from if you
>> were to write  a FreeBSD one.
>>
> I guess I'm screwed them.  I tried to create a module using ndisgen, but
> when I try to load the module, it crashes the system and forces a
> complete restart.
> 
> I'm afraid I don't have the skills to write a device driver.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
Just a a final note. The (discontinued) wpi driver that Damien started
is still floating around and works for some people (although its a
little flaky and only gives 6Mbps even for those where it does work.)
I have a copy you can try if you like.


Vince

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