From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 12 16:52:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17640 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:52:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17635 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA13023 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:52:08 -0800 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Kewl! If we can make it work, maybe I'll buy a pair of these.. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:52:08 -0800 Message-ID: <13021.824172728@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk [From USENET - Keith Slower writes] >Is there an existing WaveLan device driver for FreeBSD? I'm getting a WaveLan >card soon and I need to get it set up. I know that Linux has a driver but I >really don't want to switch to Linux from BSD. Hari Balakrishnan, a graduate student here did a BSDI driver, (for the use of the mobile computing group here). They gave me permission to put various versions of the driver out for anonymous ftp from vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu:~ftp/pub/kls/wavelan There is normal version wl.c, a pcmcia version wlp.c, a 2.4 gigahertz versions wlg.c. It will probably take some hacking for FreeBSD, but far less than starting with the linux version. >If there is no current driver, how hard would it be for someone with no device >driver experience to port the Linux driver to BSD? (impossible?) I looked at >the Linux code and it's 2300 lines of unpleasantness. I'ld recommend somebody who had already done some kernel hacking to do the job. It isn't that it hard, but the conventions are different from user-level programming and it takes a while to get used to.