Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:22:59 +0400 From: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> To: Steve Franks <franks@rudbek.com> Cc: Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About bwi Message-ID: <49E4E293.7000302@lissyara.su> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90904141124j839dd20qb20e3e14b05e6f97@mail.gmail.com> References: <49A701DF.5070109@lissyara.su> <3c1674c90902261300x6dd5f21bja58ecf214bcfb644@mail.gmail.com> <49A70508.20100@lissyara.su> <ea7b9c170902261826p5834406kdbcc6a309064e7fb@mail.gmail.com> <539c60b90904141124j839dd20qb20e3e14b05e6f97@mail.gmail.com>
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Steve Franks пишет: > 2009/2/26 Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com>: >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> wrote: >>> Kip Macy пишет: >>>> 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. Several 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... http://paradox.lissyara.su/bwi.02.tar.bz2 - 7.x http://paradox.lissyara.su/bwi.02e.tar.bz2 - current but - it only for PCI (PCMCI) new card - need new driver. see http://paradox.lissyara.su/bwi.03e.tar.bz2 It not work (only detecting correct). need write code > > 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 >
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