From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 14 18:44:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6C0106564A; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:44:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78E88FC08; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:44:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so2379601wfg.7 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:44:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=A731POsLGFyJDL6ZjauIqrvGeYUNbNF+pUbUHDNQACk=; b=M6HFri1ZxDx9v2j9w7ZLF+emCf/V6yRMffxMiT76EVl1DO67s1cJEjobB2wHoK9P/h gRsOT9tDlxO7geF9F2QRCA7Twi9Z0/CLl90A5umFKENaqqo/jXrKsxilzXgFNu4BsojM rbTzIDxxLA7jLMHRzZzfJfP9hSD5jO+s4pfeQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=joTk0ts+z5goGd9+THEYl9CAf3/SiwddCqefbKg6lbV96ykV0zCSJciWKcPhfelL5q +cIZ+DYNudQCy714OhxwjmYDslsSpJbUfYpVzx13Bv6tEB2t9Lu9A3McJ7n6xeuXTU1u JQU20kzPtFcZIKA0OW1gqaTzA8eLTW7YDeLFI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.234.16 with SMTP id g16mr3377234wfh.264.1239733480379; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:24:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <49A701DF.5070109@lissyara.su> <3c1674c90902261300x6dd5f21bja58ecf214bcfb644@mail.gmail.com> <49A70508.20100@lissyara.su> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:24:40 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b16926b96e471a7e Message-ID: <539c60b90904141124j839dd20qb20e3e14b05e6f97@mail.gmail.com> From: Steve Franks To: Sepherosa Ziehau Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Alex Keda , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kip Macy Subject: Re: About bwi X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:44:59 -0000 2009/2/26 Sepherosa Ziehau : > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Alex Keda wrote: >> Kip Macy =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: >>> >>> Someone needs to be there to maintain it. To the best of my knowledge >>> no one appropriate has stepped forward. >>> >> >> And what exactly should be supported? >> He finished - nothing more to do. > > I actually didn't finish it (the finished part works well enough for > me on dfly for all of the 8 bcm cards I have) and I do not have enough > time to keep working on it. =9ASeveral folks mailed me about what to do > next, I pointed them to the spec on the web, however, I didn't hear > from any of them after that. > >> >> no way to develop a driver. >> the new cards have to write a new driver. > > I based on following URL when I worked on the "old" driver: > http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/ > > For newer parts you will need following one: > http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/ > > Hope this will be useful to you. > > Best Regards, > sephe > > -- > Live Free or Die > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > If someone could give me a hand on where to stick the tgz into /usr/src and get started, I'll have a go...I've written alot of drivers for 8051-style toys, I'm not sure if I'm man enough for this, but I'd rather try and fail, then skip the attempt. If nothing else, a working bwi in ports would answer an awful lot of ndisgen emails... I've seen a number of posts around the web. Was this for stable or current? I really don't have a functional current box at the moment, but several stable boxes where ndis0 won't find my AP's... Just to add to the fun, my latest system is brand-new, so it's a mini-pci-express bwi; I assume if that works, it's going to incorporate alot of other new cards... Steve