From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 11 13:24:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18567 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18518 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:24:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA10496; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:24:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA16075; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:24:06 -0600 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:24:06 -0600 Message-Id: <199806112024.OAA16075@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jim Binkley Cc: Kurt Joseph Windisch , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLAN PCMCIA for 2.2.6-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <199806111927.MAA01473@church.cse.ogi.edu> References: <199806111825.LAA07045@peabody.> <199806111927.MAA01473@church.cse.ogi.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >Is there a way to drive a WaveLAN PCCARD from FreeBSD 2.2.6 w/o > >using the PAO patches (which cause too many other problems on my > >Digital Hinote Ultra 2000). I can get 2.2.6-RELEASE to do everything > >I need except WaveLAN. There is a driver, but it looks like it only > >supports isa cards, not PCMCIA. Are there patches that don't rely on PAO? > > Basically no, the if_wlp.c driver is ensnarled in the PAO. > It needs liberation IMHO because there are features that it should > support (figuring out dynamically if it is 2.4 or 915, and also > dealing with 2.4 subchannels), that it doesn't. Cool. I'm not up to this task though. If I made it possible to use w/out PAO, would you be willing to take it further? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message