From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 15:43:02 2007 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 A788916A46C; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:43:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv2.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f03:1f1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E789413C47E; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:43:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from prawn.unsane.co.uk (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBDFgRse023302 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:42:28 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <476152E9.3090707@unsane.co.uk> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:42:33 +0000 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Close References: <472A6708.9030109@clearchain.com> In-Reply-To: <472A6708.9030109@clearchain.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current , freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFT] Intel 3945abg wireless driver (wpi) 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: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:43:02 -0000 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. > Thanks for getting this driver going, I'm now using the version in 7.0, Its working very well for me other than one (reasonably minor) thing, which is that "ifconfig wpi0 scan" just sits there until I kill it. the driver works in every other way, associates, works with WEP (havent tried with WPA.) It will find and associate with a network if I just put in "ifconfig wpi0 up" or if i use wpa_supplicant. (jhary@prawn)$uname -a FreeBSD prawn.unsane.co.uk 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #39: Tue Dec 11 12:51:33 GMT 2007 toor@prawn.unsane.co.uk:/usr/local/obj/usr/src/sys/PRAWN7ULE i386 Vince > Cheers, > Benjamin > _______________________________________________ > 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"