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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:13:29 +1100
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ray if_ray_oldcard.h if_ray.c if_ray
Message-ID:  <20010119101329.B376@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010118075237.dmlb@computer.my.domain>; from dmlb@dmlb.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 07:52:37AM -0000
References:  <200101180616.f0I6Gqs43312@harmony.village.org> <XFMail.010118075237.dmlb@computer.my.domain>

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On Thursday, 18 January 2001 at  7:52:37 -0000, Duncan Barclay wrote:
>
> On 18-Jan-01 Warner Losh wrote:
>> In message <200101180438.f0I4cxK08723@mobile.wemm.org> Peter Wemm writes:
>>> Warner Losh wrote:
>>>> In message <200101180411.f0I4BdK08452@mobile.wemm.org> Peter Wemm writes:
>>>>> If you use NEWCARD and -current, you can map these really high - beyond
>>>>> the
>>>>> end of memory.
>>>>
>>>> Yes.  Except I don't think that ray has been newcarded.
>>>
>>> I looked at it last week sometime and nearly had a heart attack when I
>>> saw how intimate it was with the pccard code....
>
> A combination of poor design in the card itself and, erm how fo I saw this
> politely - poor implementation in the very old pccard and pccardd code.
>
>> Yes.  But it has to be because it is such a twisted design.  At least
>> the API should be the same between oldcard and newcard.  That was a
>> design goal anyway.
>
> The latest commit removes a lot of the intimacy with pccard. It "should" work
> if NEWCARD implements the bits I need. Warner and I have been adding to the API
> as needed over the past few months.
>
> Trying to get the card going under NEWCARD is on my list after I saw
> the recent changes to if_wi.c that made if_wi NEWCARD compatible. I can give it
> a try over the next few days.

I'm currently travelling, which means I'm in the range of 802.11b
services, so I'm not using the ray card.  But I'll try it all out when
I get home.

Greg
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