Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller

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
benjsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/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?

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