Re: ipw3945 WLAN driver

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/17/07, Nuno Antunes <nuno.antunes@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/19/06, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 19 Nov 2006 09:15:38 GMT, Johannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > Thomas Schlesinger <schlesinger@netcologne.de> wrote:
> > > > Am Dienstag, 14. November 2006 18:40 schrieb Thomas Schlesinger:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> are there plans to port the ipw3945 driver from OpenBSD in the near future?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thomas
> > > >
> > > > Ok, I take this as "no" ;-)
> >
> > I did a preliminary port several months ago:
> > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/wpi.tbz
> >
> > It is known to crash some place arround firmware loading.  I do not
> > have hardware to keep going, so if you are interested, you can
> > continue it or start from scratch (NetBSD's wpi port may be a better
> > start point than OpenBSD's)
> >
> > I will be glad to commit it, if you can knock it out :-)
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > sephe
> >
>
> Hello Sephe,
>
> I have the hardware and I am willing to test this and try to make it
> work on my laptop. I tweaked your preliminary port a bit so that it
> compiles on HEAD. The interface is correctly detected when I load the
> module. But now I'm stuck. How do I upload the firmware? I've
> installed pkgsrc sysutils/wpi-firmware.
>
> I tried the following but I get an error:
>
> class# ipwcontrol wpi0 -f /usr/pkg/libdata/if_wpi/ipw3945.ucode
> ipwcontrol: Can't load /usr/pkg/libdata/if_wpi/ipw3945.ucode to
> driver: Bad address

wpicontrol is needed to upload firmware into wpiX.  umm, I forgot to
put wpicontrol in that tarball.  I will put it on leaf once I get
home.  Please prepare to panic once you have uploaded the firmware and
'ifconfig wpi0 up' ;]

There are very informative guide about how to debug:
http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/Development

Best Regards,
sephe

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