From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 16:31:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE07A16A4CE; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:31:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from deliver.epitech.net (deliver.epitech.net [163.5.0.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA71F43D49; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:31:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from le-hen_j@epita.fr) Received: from epita.fr ([10.42.1.60]) by deliver.epitech.net (SAVSMTP 3.1.2.35) with SMTP id M2004061618261219268 ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:26:12 +0200 Received: from annelo (annelo.epita.fr [10.42.120.68]) by epita.fr id i5GGVD524329 Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:31:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:31:12 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Bill Paul Message-ID: <20040616163112.GA19248@annelo.epita.fr> References: <40C3CC0A.2030300@portaone.com> <20040616160019.8CB6716A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040616160019.8CB6716A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: Maxim Sobolev cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project Evil & ACX100-based cards (D-Link DWL-520+) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:31:37 -0000 I would like to take advantage of Bill Paul's mail to tell people that Darron Broad, which is developping the acx(4) driver [1], keeps up debugging to make ACX111 (which is used in D-Link DWL-520+) work. For a long time, there has been a few lines of code in if_acx.c which prevent the driver from loading on ACX111 chipsets, with the following CVS log message: << detect unsupported device, will dump ram to look at it >> It seems that Darron removed this check in revision 1.159 a few days ago and he is apparently actively working on it, given the frequency of commits last weeks. I tried the driver, and the card is now recognized, but I didn't succeded in making it work for now. But I think it's on the right way. Unfortunately, at time of writing this mail, there are no recent snapshot available, and the only way to access CVS is CVSweb. You can imagine how boring it is to get all files up to date :-). So Darron, if you hear me, could you create a new snapshot or, better, make a cron job to create a daily snapshot ? Thus users would be able to test the driver and eventually report some useful things. A little quote on the current status would also be welcome. Thanks a lot for your work. Regards, [1] http://wlan.kewl.org/ -- Jeremie LE HEN aka TtZ/TataZ jeremie.le-hen@epita.fr ttz@epita.fr Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!