Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:40:07 +0100 From: Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner <lopisaur@gmail.com> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 3945ABG and others Message-ID: <1164004807.10209.7.camel@resurrection> In-Reply-To: <200611191956.06071.max@love2party.net> References: <1163885169.6558.39.camel@resurrection> <20061119192633.0af1ea15.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <200611191956.06071.max@love2party.net>
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On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 19:55 +0100, Max Laier wrote: > On Sunday 19 November 2006 19:26, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:26:08 +0100 > > > > Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner <lopisaur@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sound is ALC861, > > > > Probably HDA, you should test the snd_hdac driver. Look on -multimedia > > mailinglist for clues. > > > > > wireless 3945ABG. > > > > As far as I know (and I'm interested, because I have a laptop with > > this device myself), nothing has happened on this front. It seems that > > Intel, for reasons of their own, isn't able to (or doesn't want to) > > release necessary docs to make a good driver. > > OpenBSD (4.0) have support for this via the wpi driver, but it doesn't > > support WPA yet, only WEP. > > There is an experimental FreeBSD version of this driver available via: > http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/wpi/ ... there are a couple of > people interested in getting this working, see Threads on freebsd-net@ > from October and November. > > > Your best bet would be to > > a) exchange the network card, if possible. Some laptop network cards > > are miniPCI and can be exchanged, but I do not know if this is the case > > for the 3945ABG. > > b) use an external usb network "dongle". Look at the ural driver, you > > can find some of the supported devices quite cheap. I dont know how > > good they are, I have just tested one, and have some issues with it > > (stability) but haven't been able to rule out if it is something with > > my setup yet. > Hmm, guess I'll have to get back used to running around with patch cables... at least for a while. On a side note, thanks to all you guys who responded! I actually tried getting some ideas for some other issues in a Linux-vendor's forum (machine would fsck and hang if booted without the radio on, weird) and all I got were flames, so I can proudly say that we have a great community! Keep up the good work! -- Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner lopisaur@gmail.com clopez@uni-koblenz.de (+49-173)1030695 PGP Keys: 98FC0D41 483EA9B6 (Old)
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