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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:44:43 +0100
From:      Gilbert Cao <hika@bsdmon.com>
To:        Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>
Cc:        Massimo Lusetti <mlusetti@gmail.com>, Abdullah Al-Marrie <almarrie@gmail.com>, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, damien.bergamini@free.fr, sam@freebsd.org, gabor@freebsd.org, Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject:   Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
Message-ID:  <20070124204443.GA1107@bsdmon.com>
In-Reply-To: <499c70c0701201038w6960174n3006ffd525f17bf6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <459E6477.2010508@clearchain.com> <200701051634.00293.max@love2party.net> <459E75A5.7000309@FreeBSD.org> <200701051732.27176.max@love2party.net> <a6647e120701050844u49b3f867xcbc0235e50871578@mail.gmail.com> <45A0F739.3030202@clearchain.com> <499c70c0701201038w6960174n3006ffd525f17bf6@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:38:46PM +0000, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
[..]
Well, sorry to post in *this* thread. It may not be appropriate, but I
just subscribe to freebsd-drivers :p.

> On 1/7/07, Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com> wrote:
> >To others working on a wpi driver, please post something indicating what
> >you've done and even a sample of what your up to so we can one build one
> >driver that just works. I also did the driver port as everything I found
> >failed to work on a 64bit kernel, most the time wouldn't even compile.
> >
> >I'm happy to try and maintain this driver. I have the hardware.
> >
> >The main bugs I know about in this driver port are:
> >
> >* The use of the iee80211_amrr code
> >The files exist in -current in /usr/src/sys/net80211 but the required
> >symbols are not in a GENERIC kernel build. There is a wlan_amrr module
> >which uses this code, though I'm not sure how to make use of this, it
> >appears a simple dependency on the module is not enough. The use of the
> >80211_amrr code also means that use under -stable requires quite a bit
> >more work as Rink pointed out.
> >
[..]
> >For those wishing to help debug the driver and get it working, I've
> >posted a new version
> >http://www.clearchain.com/~benjsc/download/20070107-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz
> >

As I have posted a message here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-January/140475.ht=
ml

I have put a custom version of mine from your last package here:
http://www.bsdmon.com/download/20070121-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz

What I have mainly done is to make the package compile and work (for me
a least) on 6.2-RELEASE (and possibly other 6.x ?).

Don't know if you will ignore it or not, but I feel like I should have post
it here, anyway.
As it works well, now for my daily uses (reading mail, surfing on the
HTTP, playing Q3 ;), I may post some debug output, if needed, but I keep
using 6.2, no -current.
The post may be off topic, sorry ...

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