On Friday 05 January 2007 16:58, Florent Thoumie wrote: > Max Laier wrote: > > 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 > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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 :) > > While I'm really happy to see people working on this, isn't this a > duplicated effort? This is at least the third attempt to get a wpi(4) > driver on FreeBSD (and I'm sure two of them are based on Damien's > driver). I might be missing something though.
Hence the extensive CC-list ... I'm trying to get all people involved to talk to each other and coordinate. From what I hear the other drivers showed some problems regarding resource allocation - maybe this one does better ... I'm more than willing to shepherd one of these drivers into the tree, but I'd need people with the actual hardware to say: "Yes it works" (for a large enough fraction of cases) and possibly somebody to serve as a maintainer willing to deal with PRs and stuff in the future. Given that part one of this is fullfilled by either of the available drivers - let's get something in and work from there. Thoughts? Volunteers? -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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