From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 01:40:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA48316A420 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 01:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C88E13C4A6 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 01:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so846013waf for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:40:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=/Vo2lL7hdCjK5O/4tzLt1eLN3A6BD+QQfiNsJ0UPBZY=; b=JlO3P6ykhFSQy5BNt7ciO9LMgLxAct6YdPk3G2Uba0jAKeVj2mjNEVJnph7iRPl3tgjaYjmMFlCZeO9zvushBbQ6aBPNYoszcqo6LHZUgoah6lmXzx4k+Z4H/5BxI9mmShDow/GRNTlysbpdPtPazBcGdmjyuFpqHs/wQdnk2n0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NNM0SXtGE3C0gvq8WUiMJjyJaXyZHVZwhDslSoedI4PI42k2uncaeGsWu4TdllbV7sh958lbJGYyVkb7V4KcBt9644sGWmUbbcTrxz42N/nWJsK9fgslEvPjdZN1nTGZSjB530CVXkzIgj5wcJC1s9+Icu9NMmi0BRCi5NnEV3g= Received: by 10.115.22.1 with SMTP id z1mr1263571wai.1193964326259; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.13.15 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:45:26 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Lars Engels" , "Benjamin Close" , freebsd-current , freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20071102004248.GA5253@e.0x20.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <472A6708.9030109@clearchain.com> <20071102004248.GA5253@e.0x20.net> Cc: Subject: Re: [RFT] Intel 3945abg wireless driver (wpi) X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:40:27 -0000 man kenv On 11/1/07, Lars Engels wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:23:44AM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote: > > Howdy All, I'm pleased to announce the first 'official' experimental version of the wpi wireless driver and hence require your help in making it become > > stable. > > Expect a few things not to work (ie bg scanning, setting txpower) but in general the driver should be usable in station mode (hostap is not yet supported). > > > > If you've got an Intel 3945abg wireless card, grab the tarball at: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz > > > > Untar and follow the instructions in the README. > > If you want more info about the driver, or to checkout the FAQ checkout: > > > > http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi > > > > I'm interested in all reports related to panics, things not working as expected, etc. > > The driver still has debug enabled so expect a few messages to be dumped to the screen whilst in use. > > > > Finally, many thanks to all those that have been helping debug the driver along the way. > > > > Cheers, > > Benjamin > > Good to know that someone is still working on it. > However, it doesn't work for me. I cannot load the firmware: > > lars@ttyp3 # kldload wpifw > lars@ttyp3 # dmesg > wpifw: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/. > wpifw: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 > in /boot/loader.conf. > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (wpifw_fw, 0xc6d1151c, 0) error 1 > > lars@ttyp3 # grep legal.intel_wpi.license_ack /boot/loader.conf > legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 > > lars@ttyp3 # sysctl legal > sysctl: unknown oid 'legal' > > And I even read the license! ;-) > > Lars > >