From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 20:36:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB118F59; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:75::1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1BCB382; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ralph.baldwin.cx (pool-173-70-85-31.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net [173.70.85.31]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9B665B91F; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:36:10 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various fixes to wl(4) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:35:54 -0400 Message-ID: <9238703.p5asNz0dlH@ralph.baldwin.cx> User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (FreeBSD/10.0-STABLE; KDE/4.10.5; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1815820.OytfPhNq3X@ralph.baldwin.cx> <2930763.7FbKMgYveJ@ralph.baldwin.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:36:10 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current , Warner Losh , Warner Losh X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:36:12 -0000 On Monday, September 22, 2014 12:42:34 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 22 September 2014 12:20, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday, September 19, 2014 03:47:16 PM Warner Losh wrote: > >> I got rid of my pre-802.11 WaveLAN cards about 8 years go after no= t > >> having > >> them in a system at all for 8 years. And they were about 4 years o= bsolete > >> when I took them out of service=E2=80=A6 I=E2=80=99m not even sure= I have a machine with > >> an > >> ISA slot to test the card, even if I still had it. > >>=20 > >> Sorry I can=E2=80=99t help more :) > >=20 > > If no one tests them then I will happily toss the driver into the d= ustbin, > > just giving folks a chance to test patches before I do so. (I'm se= cretly > > hoping I can purge several old drivers during the current round of > > timeout() purging.) >=20 > The wavelan/prism driver no longer works out of the box and hasn't > since I took over the net80211 stack. >=20 > TL;DR - some changes from sam and others a few years ago to do raw > 802.11 frame transmit just doesn't work on all the wavelan cards that= > are in use. I've asked for someone interested to go through the > changelog and back out those changes, making the driver again a > straight 802.3 transmit driver - but noone has. :( >=20 > So yes, you have a +1 to disconnect the wavelan driver from the build= . I think you are referring to wi(4)? --=20 John Baldwin